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Part One: The King of Con Artists, Victor Lustig

Behind the Bastards

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You're a Teenager in Rural Kansas in 1918

Victor was arrested in 1918, a little before the wars end for one such pocketbook scheme. He jumped bail rather than go to trial and this happened in Kansas City. But even though Kansas City is kind of where he it's his, it also held a price for him. Roberta Norrin had grown up in a small town in Kansas and after her father's death had nearly been forced into child labor because she didn't have rich parents. She met Victor when she was still in her late teens; by the time she meets him, she's probably an adult.

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