8 episodes
Sweet Bobby Tortoise
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- True Crime
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4.7 • 79 Ratings
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How much do you know about the person you love? Sweet Bobby is the #1 chart-topping, award-winning investigative series in search of the world's most sophisticated catfisher.
Listen to the full six-part series, and bonus episodes today. For the premium Tortoise listening experience, curated by our journalists, download the free Tortoise audio app. For early and ad-free access to all our investigative series and daily and weekly shows, subscribe to Tortoise+ on Apple Podcasts.
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Episode 1: Sliding doors
Kirat is a successful marketer and radio presenter. Online, she’s contacted by a man she vaguely knows called Bobby, and they start chatting. Slowly, they become close… and she’s reeled in to a scam of epic proportions.
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Episode 2: Witness protection
Bobby finds his way back into Kirat's life, and their relationship grows closer – with devastating consequences. Meanwhile, Alexi investigates the sophistication of the catfishing scam.
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Episode 3: Confession
Bobby is now closer than ever – and yet he keeps slipping through Kirat's grasp. After being pushed to breaking point, she makes the life changing decision to confront him – and discovers the truth...
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Episode 4: Dark triads
Kirat deals with the fallout from the confession. Alexi’s investigation reveals the startling true beginnings of the scam, as he tries to unravel the catfisher's motivation.
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Episode 5: (In)justice
After the confession, Kirat goes to the police. But their reaction to her case isn’t what she’s expecting. Plus: Alexi tries a new approach with the catfisher...
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Episode 6: Motive
In the final episode of Sweet Bobby, Kirat’s case against the catfisher takes an unexpected turn. As Alexi is putting the finishing touches to the series, he gets a phone call that changes everything.
Listen to the full six-part series today. For the premium Tortoise listening experience, curated by our journalists, download the free Tortoise audio app. For early and ad-free access to all our investigative series and daily and weekly shows, subscribe to Tortoise+ on Apple Podcasts.
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Customer Reviews
Where is the love?
Sometimes a father needs to believe his children and simply hug them and tell them everything will be alright. It sounds like this father is constrained by community relations, or should that be “family honour”.
Now the police is a service and not a force the change must mean they no longer “enforce” the law. This can be seen in the two tier handling of protestors and the way they ignore flags and chants from proscribed terrorists but soft-arrest anyone for disagreeing with protestors. For the police, there is no love lost on “inconsequential events” shared by someone “with a mental health issue”.
This story navigates its way through a huge tapestry of small events and demonstrates how the police should have investigated the story instead of leaving it to journalists.
It’s a story which details an unnecessary nasty cruelty one person committed on another. That the perpetrator can become a senior member of a bank says a lot about the bank. Let’s hope the bank name hits social media so we can review the banks behaviour and if necessary de-customer the bank for its centralised arrogance.
Random but good listening
Devoured this in one journey - unbelievable but makes for a good listen.
A gripping real life account of betrayal trauma and coercive control.
I never write podcast reviews but I felt compelled to do so after listening to Sweet Bobby. I listened to all 6 episodes within 24 hours and the story is shocking. I went on an emotional rollercoaster. I can only begin to imagine the pain and trauma that Kirat experienced. I felt the gut wrenching pain of betrayal trauma- and I also felt sick to my stomach when the truth was revealed. I sincerely hope that, one day, Kirat finds peace in her heart.