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Pete Crooks

The Setup

A True Story of Dirty Cops, Soccer Moms, and Reality TV

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The incredible true story of the PI Moms scam and the small-time reporter who exposed it: A jaw-dropping tale of ambition, crime, and reality TV (Ira Glass, host of NPR's This American Life). In 2010, an unbelievable story came across the desk of Diablo magazine lifestyle reporter Pete Crooks. The pitch went like this: Retired cop Chris Butler ran a private investigation firm in Concord, California, staffed entirely by soccer moms. Sexy and smart, these women were the real-life Charlie's Angels-trained in investigation, self-defense, and weaponry. Butler and his PI Moms had already been featured in People magazine and on Dr. Phil. Now But… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Kettmann, Steve
  • ISBN: 978-1-940363-55-4
  • EAN: 9781940363554
  • Produktnummer: 22224105
  • Verlag: BenBella Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
  • Seitenangabe: 322 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 1'504 KB

Über den Autor


Pete Crooks is a Bay Area-based journalist, and the author of the seminal investigative story about one of the Bay Area's most sensational crime and corruption stories in recent history. For the past 14 years, Crooks has been one of the editors of Diablo magazine, and was on assignment for the magazine when he broke the incredible crime scandal detailed in The Setup: A True Story of Soccer Moms, Dirty Cops, and Reality TV.Crooks's reporting on this stranger than fiction story about reality show wannabes, duplicitous soccer moms, and a conspiracy involving corrupt cops and a sociopath private investigator received national acclaim, inspiring episodes of the award-winning radio program This American Life and 48 Hours on CBS news, for which Crooks served as an official consultant.

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