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The GPO Girl

Samantha Azzopardi / Guerdwich Montimere

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41: The GPO Girl

Australia’s “most notorious con-woman” adopts multiple aliases to commit crimes around the world.

Prelude: Jerry Joseph leaves Haiti to become a high school basketball star in a small, west Texas town.

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