A 90-year-old amateur archaeologist who claimed to have detonated the first atomic bomb was also one of the most prolific grave robbers in modern American history.

How a member of a breakaway Mormon sect teamed up with a Lambo-driving, hard-partying tycoon to bilk the government for hundreds of millions of dollars.

An Iowa sports radio pioneer turns scammer.

Jered Threatin tried to fake his way to fame and got caught red-handed. Or did he?

All Artur Samarin wanted to be was a normal American teenager. So that’s what he became.

He had the gear, the charm, the trail stories. He found his marks in outdoorsy women.

How “Count” Victor Lustig, one of America’s great con men, worked his scams.

Audrey Elrod thought she had found the man of her dreams. Today she is in a West Virginia prison. She’s broke. And the court has ordered her to pay more than $400,000 to victims of the same man who conned her.

On then-agent, now-congressman Michael Grimm and what happens when an F.B.I. informant turns out to be a con man.

How the author became tangled up with an international con man who may or may not have murdered several people.

How a con-man convinced Los Angeles that he was prepared to purchase the Dodgers from the now-bankrupt Frank McCourt.