Hey everyone, it's Mike Morford, one of the producers of The Scene of the Crime.

And I'd like to invite you to listen to a podcast called Pretend,

A True Crime Documentary Podcast. It's created and hosted by a friend of mine,

Javier Arleva. In each season of Javier's show, he goes deep behind the scenes of some

of the strangest stories you'll ever hear. To bring you a bird's eye view of the case,

he's covered Colts, Enconment, and a documentary-style format. And right now in his new season,

he's tackling the truth behind Frank Abignell Jr., the forger and fraudster famously portrayed

by Leonardo DiCaprio in the hit movie Catch Me If You Can. I'm about to play you a preview of

Pretend and Javier's coverage of The Real Catch Me If You Can. And after you listen to it,

head over to your favorite podcast app and subscribe to Javier's show. I promise you you won't

be disappointed. Enjoy this preview and I'll see you back here soon. Do you remember the movie Catch

Me If You Can? Well, apparently a lot of people think that this movie is based on a true story,

but I found out it's 98% BS. Frank Abignell says that he posed as an airline pilot,

he was a doctor, and he wrote $2.5 million in bad checks. But after doing a little digging,

it turns out that Frank Abignell's story is a lie, and I have to documents to prove it.

You see, I've been trying to get Frank Abignell on my podcast for five years now,

so if he won't come to me, well, I'll just have to go to him.

Hey, Mr. Abignell. For six years, we've rated the FBI pretending to be a pilot, a doctor,

a professor, but how are we able to do that if you were sitting in prison the whole time?

Just recently, I flew up to Vegas and confronted Frank Abignell after one of his keynote speeches.

This is The Real Catch Me If You Can, and I'm going to expose his lies one by one,

and I have the police records, court records, all the documents I need to prove he's a fraud.

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