{"id":21897,"date":"2024-08-28T08:50:14","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T12:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/worldscreen.com\/"},"modified":"2024-08-28T10:08:53","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T14:08:53","slug":"killer-lies-chasing-a-true-crime-con-mans-ben-selkow-lauren-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/killer-lies-chasing-a-true-crime-con-mans-ben-selkow-lauren-collins\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Interview: Killer Lies\u2019 Ben Selkow &amp; Lauren Collins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2022, <em>The New Yorker<\/em>\u2019s Lauren Collins published an article delving into the life and career of St\u00e9phane Bourgoin, who, from 1990 to 2020, made a name for himself as a serial killer expert, claiming his career choice was inspired by a girlfriend being brutally killed in the \u201970s. He was able to secure jailhouse interviews with famous murderers, pen 75 books, appear on television to share his supposed expertise and even lecture police on the subject of criminology for three decades until an anonymous group of true-crime fans began to investigate him and Collins picked up on the story.<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: block; position: relative; max-width: 690px;\">\r\n \t                <div style=\"padding-top: 56.2504%;\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<video data-video-id=\"6361104968112\" \r\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-account=\"1120308147\" \r\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-player=\"default\" \r\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-embed=\"default\" \r\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-application-id \r\n\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"video-js\" \r\n\t\t\t\t\tcontrols=\"\"\r\n                    loop autoplay\r\n\t\t\t\t\tstyle=\"width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; top: 0px; bottom: 0px; right: 0px; left: 0px;\"><\/div><\/video>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<script src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/1120308147\/default_default\/index.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now, National Geographic\u2019s\u00a0<em>Killer Lies: Chasing a True Crime Con Man<\/em>\u00a0exposes Bourgoin\u2019s fabricated credentials and major lies\u2014including the made-up story about a girlfriend being murdered by a serial killer\u2014on-screen, detailing the investigation led by the online vigilante group The 4th Eye Corporation and Collins.<\/p>\n<p>Director Ben Selkow and Collins tell\u00a0<em>TV Real Weekly<\/em>\u00a0about breaking down the story across three episodes, delving even deeper into Bourgoin\u2019s lies and interviewing Bourgoin himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Killer Lies: Chasing a True Crime Con Man\u2019s director Ben Selkow and Lauren Collins, the journalist behind the article that inspired the series, tell\u00a0World Screen Newsflash\u00a0about breaking down the story across three episodes and delving deeper into St\u00e9phane Bourgoin\u2019s lies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1412,"featured_media":21898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[9929,9928,9930],"class_list":["post-21897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-ben-selkow","tag-killer-lies-chasing-a-true-crime-con-man","tag-lauren-collins","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Video Interview: Killer Lies\u2019 Ben Selkow &amp; 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