A Fisherman Pulls a Dead Man's Badge From a River: The Vanished Podcast Fraud
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A Fisherman Pulls a Dead Man's Badge From a River: The Vanished Podcast Fraud
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A laminated badge pulled from a Wisconsin river named a Senior Investigative Producer who never existed, and a podcast that drew 600,000 listeners turned out to be built on invented towns, forged documents, and false witnesses-so how did a fake world make six hundred thousand people believe a murder that never happened? What does a plastic rectangle in the water reveal about the limits of trust in storytelling?
In this episode, we tell how a man with a cracked Subaru and a stack of forgeries created a podcast that reached hundreds of thousands, what he fabricated to convince listeners, and the moment a retired schoolteacher discovered his own made-up identity-how did the scheme come apart when reality found its badge?
Person: Jerry Foster
Date: June 14, 2022
Location: Cassidy River, three miles south of Maren, Wisconsin
Topic: Vanished: The Cassidy County Files podcast
Person: John Kowalski
- 600,000 people had listened to the podcast claimed to be about a 1991 disappearance.
- The badge found bore the name Gerald Mott, Senior Investigative Producer, dated October 11, 2019.
- The podcast’s Facebook community grew to 40,000 members using seeded fake listener accounts.
- John Kowalski registered Northfield Audio Partners in Delaware before launching the show.
- Kowalski fabricated newspaper clippings, sheriff’s reports, and a county that does not appear in any Wisconsin municipal register.
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