David Wilson's Crime Files: Scams and Scandals

BBC Scotland

11:30 PM to 12:00 AM

Tuesday 14 October

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HThe criminologist explores how religion and spirituality can be exploited by scammers and fraudsters to target vulnerable people who are looking for answers to life's big questions. He looks back to the Second War for the story of Helen Duncan, a self-styled psychic medium from Edinburgh who claimed to be able to talk to the dead. He reveals how she convinced hundreds of people that she was for real, and was targeted by the authorities when she apparently revealed classified information about the sinking of a warship in 1941