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Tortoise Investigates

By: Tortoise Media
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  • Tortoise Investigates is the home of Tortoise's award-winning investigative series.


    Listen to our latest series Who Trolled Amber?, TimeOut's #1 recommended podcast of 2024. Millions of us watched the celebrity trial of the century, Depp v Heard, in 2022. Amber Heard lost and Johnny Depp was vindicated. But what if Amber was actually the victim of an organised trolling campaign? What if the online hate against her was manufactured? Alexi Mostrous, the reporter who brought you Sweet Bobby and Hoaxed, investigates what happened to Amber and who might have been responsible.


    Also on Tortoise Investigates, you'll find our other award-winning, chart-topping series: Sweet Bobby, Hoaxed, Pig Iron, Into the Dirt, Three Doors, Down and Dr Anti-Vax and Walter's War.


    To find out more about Tortoise:

    Download the Tortoise app - for a listening experience curated by our journalists


    Subscribe to Tortoise+ on Apple Podcasts for early access and ad-free content


    Become a member and get access to all of Tortoise's premium audio offerings and more


    If you want to get in touch with us directly about a story, or tell us more about the stories you want to hear about contact hello@tortoisemedia.com


    Reporter and host: Alexi Mostrous

    Producer: Xavier Greenwood

    Editor: David Taylor

    Narrative editor: Gary Marshall

    Additional reporting: Katie Riley

    Sound design: Karla Patella

    Artwork: Jon Hill & Oscar Ingham


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  • Introducing: Sweet Bobby

    Introducing: Sweet Bobby
    Oct 18 2021

    How much do you know about the person you love? Sweet Bobby is the #1 award-winning investigative series in search of the world's most sophisticated catfishers.


    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.


    If you’d like to further support slow journalism and help us build a different kind of newsroom, do consider donating to Tortoise at tortoisemedia.com/support-us. Your contributions allow us to investigate, campaign and explore, and to build a newsroom that is responsible and sustainable.


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  • Sweet Bobby - Episode 1: Sliding doors

    Sweet Bobby - Episode 1: Sliding doors
    Oct 27 2021

    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.


    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.


    If you’d like to further support slow journalism and help us build a different kind of newsroom, do consider donating to Tortoise at tortoisemedia.com/support-us. Your contributions allow us to investigate, campaign and explore, and to build a newsroom that is responsible and sustainable.


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    31 mins
  • Sweet Bobby - Episode 2: Witness protection

    Sweet Bobby - Episode 2: Witness protection
    Nov 4 2021

    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. 


    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.


    If you’d like to further support slow journalism and help us build a different kind of newsroom, do consider donating to Tortoise at tortoisemedia.com/support-us. Your contributions allow us to investigate, campaign and explore, and to build a newsroom that is responsible and sustainable.


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Even intelligent people can be conned.

There is no need to look for a motive from the perpetrator. The thrill is in the control they exert by pulling the strings and leaving a trail of destruction in their wake: the mark of a narcissist and psychopath.

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Captivating

This is an unbelievable tale! Truly incredible , I cannot put it down.
it is frightening at how cold the perpetrator is

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sweet bobby will astound you

I was recommended this by a friend. listened to it with shock. I couldn't believe this could happen and how it and and still remain legal. my thanks to the tortoise crew and mostly to brave Kerat for allowing us to hear her story.

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Possibly the best podcast of the year

An extraordinary story, beautifully told. This podcast has everything. Moving and unique. And it just gets more compelling.

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eye-opening and shocking

A brilliantly compelling account of catfishing, the impact of coercive control on the victim and the extraordinary lack of recognition of wrongdoing from the British police and justice system.

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Ep2 plays ep3!

When you click on ep2 it actually plays ep3. I was about a minute in before I realised I’ve just heard some spoilers and now can’t find where to listen to the actual ep2 because ep3 is ep3 but ep2 is ep3! Confused.

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Who trolled Sweet Bobby Amber?

I asked Audible staff why, when I clicked "play" on the Amber Heard podcast, what I got was a completely different podcast about "Sweet Bobby".

They said indifferently that there was nothing about thatr in the reviews. So herewith a one-star review, since apparently the Audible site won't get fixed without it.

I would like to listen to the "Who Trolled Amber?" podcast. I've tried clearing cookies, I've unfollowed and refollowed the podcast, and I tried asking Audible staff for help. Nothing works.

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