S506: The Prank Call part 2

Published: Nov. 6, 2019, 9:17 a.m.

b"A prank call leads to a 2-hour strip-search at a fast-food restaurant\\nA prank caller posing as a cop calls a manager at a Hardee's Restaurant in Rapid City, South Dakota. He tells the store manager that one of his employees stole money from a customer. Instead of calling the real police, the manager decides to strip search the employee. This prank call went on for more than 2 hours.\\nI spoke with the manager of that restaurant to find out why he obeyed the prank caller's every demand.\\nSearching for David Stewart\\u2014the prank call suspect\\nVictor Flaherty is now the Cheif of Police in\\xa0West Bridgewater police department in Massachusetts at the time in 2004, he was a detective sergeant searching for the notorious fast-food prank caller. Many police stations across the United States tried to locate the perpetrator\\u2014and all of them failed.\\xa0It turns out that tracing the calls back to the source proved to be nearly impossible.\\xa0\\nListen to the lengthVictor Flaherty went through to find the suspect named David Stewart.\\nIf you want to start from the beginning,\\xa0listen to part 1 here.\\n\\xa0\\nCredits\\nToday\\u2019s show was written by\\xa0Javier Leiva\\xa0and edited by Molly Brock.\\nOur theme music was written and composed by Joe Basile with\\xa0TheChicken.net.\\nAdditional music by Blue Dot Sessions and Podington Bear.\\n\\xa0\\nReferences:\\nRapid City Journal\\nCourier Journal\\nMSNBC\\n\\n-------\\nStory idea? \\nIf you have a story to share, email Javier a voice memo or short written description at info@pretendradio.org.\\n\\nFor more episodes like this visit pretendradio.org.\\n\\nTo get early releases and bonus episodes go to pretendradio.org/donate\\n\\xa0\\n\\xa0\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices"