- 29
- Episodes
- 3
- Transcribed
- 2,714
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
About Filthy Ritual
He said it could save lives. It didn’t. It couldn’t even find golf balls… Jim McCormick was a cocky English salesman with an outrageous claim: a black plastic gadget that could sniff out bombs using “electromagnetic energy.” The science was pure fiction. But in the panic after 9/11, governments bought the lie - paying up to $60,000 for a device that started life as a $20 novelty golf-ball finder. McCormick sold hope to armies and security forces across the globe. But hope turned deadly. Behind the deals were fragmented friendships, betrayals, and a truth so dangerous it would take years to drag into the light. Alice Levine uncovers the jaw-dropping story of a con that cost countless lives - and the unlikely people who stopped at nothing to uncover the truth. Explosive Lies is a Global Original podcast, produced by Forest Sounds in partnership with Dentsu Entertainment.
- Publisher
- Global
- Category
- society & culture · true crime
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 12 Apr 2023
- Latest episode
- 13 Jan 2026
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6. No Sign of Remorse | Explosive Lies
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4. Expanding Web of Fraud | Explosive Lies
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5. Dead End | Explosive Lies
Published 13 Jan 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Bristol, December 2011. Detective Nikki White sits in her starkly lit office, surrounded by enough paperwork to make a tree reconsider its life choices. The teetering towers of case notes and crime reports are all about one scam artist. Jim, he's been on bail for almost two years now, and Nikki is within a whisker of charging him with fraud. Today is the day the team will submit a bulging case file to the Crown Prosecution Service. It's a crunch moment. It's down to the CPS to decide whether there's enough evidence to charge Jim. If not, Nikki will have to go back to the drawing board. She flicks through the reams of evidence, picturing a web of incriminating connections. […]
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