Episode 12: The Body in the Desert | True Crime News Presents: American Hustlers

The twist is revealed - secret recordings Danny and Kaushal made in the courtroom which incriminate the judge who is heard making stunning pro-prosecution and anti-gay remarks. The revelation wins Danny and Kaushal new trials – and new trials for Miguel Bustamante and David Replogle too. Tyson finds himself faced with the possibility that the men he helped take down may go free. And to make matters worse, when Kim visits Craig McCarthy in jail – who confessed to helping Miguel stab Cliff and was one of the prosecution’s strongest witnesses – he denies that he had any part in the murder. If he recants on the record, what will that do to the case? But just before the trials begin there is one last surprise - bones are discovered in the desert. Parts of Cliff Lambert’s body. This should be the nail in the proverbial coffin, but with these guys, you really never know. As Julie and Kim look back on the story of the Dark Prince and his cabal of thieves it is remarkable how much these con artists were able to steal, how long their trail of victims is, and how little the criminal justice establishment cared about bringing them to justice before they turned murderous. Are Danny and Kaushal only outliers? Or are they symptoms of the times we live in: the era of the big con, of the willingness to only believe what we want to believe - and ignore the warning signs… until it's too late.