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A shocking true story of heartache and heartbreak. One woman's heinous lies in the cancer con game of the century. Rachel spun an elaborate web of deceit, harrowing tales of a cancer battle, the loss of a child and the invention of high-stakes professions. All the while she meticulously concealed her 22 year marriage, cloaking her real life in layers of elaborate lies.
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- Sep 24, 202635 min
The Messenger: The Rachel Cancer Scam — Bonus Episode 2: What Law Enforcement Has
After Season 2 ended, the investigation didn't stop. This bonus episode is built entirely on paper: four California Public Records Act requests filed with the Paso Robles Police Department, the San Luis Obispo County District Attorney's Office, the Central Coast Cyber Forensics Laboratory, and the Atascadero Police Department — and what came back.It starts on April 15, 2024, when Rachel Neville testified in Paso Robles Family Court that she feared for her life, and won a temporary protective order that separated Mark Neville from his three daughters. Then it walks through Ring camera footage from the very next day, showing Rachel back at the home she'd just sworn she was afraid to enter.From there, the episode traces a paper trail: a courthouse encounter with Assistant DA Stanton, a phone call to DA Dan Dow's office that got a return call in five minutes flat, an interview with DA investigator Matthew Anurud that went nowhere, and a batch of records-request denials — each one citing an "ongoing investigation" exemption, and each one confirming, in writing, that the records exist. It includes the full breakdown of Assistant DA Eric Dobroth's written response on behalf of the Crime Lab, citing attorney work-product and deliberative-process protections on every single item requested: the Pinger records, the iCloud forensics, the communications between Paso PD and the DA's office.The episode also covers Judge Duffy's family court rulings, the disputed vandalism video tied to Rachel's boyfriend Russ Kessler, nine attempted process-server visits, and the FAA's enforcement investigation into Rachel — opened twice, with the Pilot's Bill of Rights sent and interview questions prepared.Every claim is sourced to a document, a recording, or a public filing. Nothing in this episode is speculation.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
- Jun 11, 202628 min
BONUS EPISODE | The FAA Investigation into Rachel Gage Neville
The podcast was over, then the FAA documents arrived.A FOIA request to the San Jose Flight Standards District Office returned federal investigative files confirming that Inspector Alexander Strachan opened a formal enforcement inquiry into Rachel Neville's forged pilot certificate. He contacted witnesses. He prepared interview questions. One of them: "What made you decide to forge your license in the first place?"Not did you. Not we think you might have. The question assumed the answer. Because they already had it.This episode walks through what the federal government found — and what Rachel told them when they called.Rachel GageRachel Gage NevilleRussell KesslerRuss KesslerThe Messenger: The Rachel Cancer Scam is an investigative true crime podcast documenting two and a half years of fabricated illness, manufactured evidence, and a criminal case built on lies.#TrueCrime #TheMessenger #RachelCancerScam #FAA #AmericanAirlines #PiedmontAir #MercyAir #FOIA #FederalInvestigation #Forgery #TrueCrimepodcast #InvestigativePodcast #SanLuisObispoSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
- May 7, 20261h 0m
Season 2. Episode 33. The Conversation between Mark and Rachel Neville
On March 30th, 2024, Mark Neville hit record.What followed was 48 minutes of conversation inside an RV parked in the driveway of the home he once shared with Rachel Neville. By that point, Mark knew about the affairs. He knew about the scams. He knew about the fake pregnancies. And he knew about Mike Cherry.Rachel didn't know he knew all of it.What you're about to hear is that conversation. Unfiltered. In real time. A woman who cannot stop lying, caught lying while you listen. A husband who, despite everything, is still trying to save something. And a moment where the armor comes off and she says the truest things she says in the entire 48 minutes.This recording was furnished to law enforcement. There is no AI in the audio. Every word is real. The editing is selective and none of it changes the context of what you hear.This is the season finale of The Messenger. It is also, in many ways, the beginning of what comes next. The fight isn't over. Rachel Neville is still out there. And if history tells us anything, she's already building the next version of this story for the next person who makes the mistake of believing her.#TheMessenger #RachelCancerScam #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #PodcastFinale #RachelNeville #MarkNeville #BillyBush #InvestigativeJournalism #CancerScam #FakeCancer #ConArtist #PathologicalLiarRachel GageRachel NevilleSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
- Apr 23, 202639 min
Season 2. Episode 32. The Family She Built
She called her Super Mom. She still has her saved in her phone that way.Our guest this week — we're calling her Marie — lived inside the Neville household during one of the most consequential periods of this story: 2011 and 2012, when Rachel Gage Neville was performing a cancer diagnosis for co-workers, managing an affair with a man who believed she was separated from her husband, and maintaining a completely different reality for the man who was home every weekend walking to the beach thinking he had the life.Marie was there for all of it. She saw the organic wheatgrass. She went camping with the girls. She was at the dinner table. She was part of that family. And she believed every word.At Marie's request, her name has been changed and her voice has been altered to protect her identity. The words you hear are Marie's own.This episode covers what Rachel built inside her own home using a young woman who simply needed a place to stay — and what happened when that woman, years later, stumbled onto a podcast and started piecing things together.Marie is no longer a silent witness. She signed a declaration in support of Mark's legal case. She showed up to a hearing. She went on the record.Rachel created this witness. She invited her in. She handed her the evidence.Also in this episode: Harry's confrontation with the ADA in the SLO courthouse hallway, his outreach to DA Dan Dow's office — and the silence that followed — and what Rachel did the moment she realized Marie was talking.Season Finale — Thursday, May 7th: Mark and Rachel, in their own words. Rachel admits to the lying. Rachel admits to the cheating. Rachel pleads with Mark not to tell the girls. The number one enemy of the narcissist is the truth. On May 7th, she runs out of places to hide. #RachelCancerScam #TheMessenger #TrueCrime #CancerFraud #NarcissisticAbuse #FakeIllness #SanLuisObispo #JusticeForMark #Season2Finale #May7 #WitnessTestimony #TrueCrimePodcast #CoerciveControl #SuperMomSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
- Apr 16, 202638 min
Season 2. Episode 31. The Mother
She lived in the house. She cleaned it. She raised the children while Rachel did whatever she wanted. Now Becky Gullixson is talking — and she is not holding back.In Episode 31 of The Rachel Cancer Scam, we sit down with Becky Gullickson — the former mother-in-law of Rachel Neville and the mother of Mark Neville, the man still wearing an ankle monitor and facing charges from the state of California and the office of San Luis Obispo District Attorney Dan Dow. Becky is not an outside observer. She was inside the marriage. She watched Rachel Neville operate up close — the lies, the infidelity, the manipulation — and she tried to warn her son. He didn't believe her. And it cost them both years.Becky Gullickson is the latest witness to come forward in a case that has drawn national attention — a case built on allegations of cancer fraud, false police reports, and a pattern of deception that investigators and legal observers say may have been years in the making. She joins a growing number of people from Rachel Neville's inner circle who are no longer staying silent.In her own words: "I think she framed him. And I hate her for that. I absolutely hate her."Becky lives alone in Oregon. She hasn't seen three of her grandchildren in years. Her son is confined to an ankle monitor while the legal process grinds forward in San Luis Obispo County. She watched Rachel cheat on Mark from across the street — standing in a neighbor's driveway at two in the morning. She confronted Rachel directly. Rachel told her: "You will ruin my marriage." Becky had one answer for that.This episode is a first-hand account from the person who knew Rachel Neville before most people did — and who has spent years watching what that knowledge cost her family.If you have information related to this case, contact the show directly.New episodes every Thursday. Subscribe, follow, and leave a review — it helps more people find this story.#RachelCancerScam #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #InvestigativePodcast #MarkNeville #RachelNeville #BeckyGullickson #CancerFraud #FalsePolicereport #AnkleMonitor #SanLuisObispo #DistrictAttorney #DanDow #JusticeForMark #NewEpisode #TrueCrimeTwitter #TrueCrimeCommunity #PodcastersOfInstagram #CrimePodcast #WitnessTestimony #FamilyDestroyed #MothersOfInstagram #JusticeSystem #CriminalJustice #Framed #TrueCrimeAddict #MustListenPodcast #Thursday #NewPodcastEpisode #SubscribeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
- Apr 9, 202638 min
Season 2. Episode 30. The LA Years: Six Men, One Lie
In Episode 30 of The Messenger: The Rachel Cancer Scam, a new witness comes forward with a story that reaches back more than two decades—and she’s still afraid to use her real name.Harry shares the chilling account of “Shelby,” a former friend of Rachel’s from Los Angeles, who says she witnessed Rachel in the early 2000s at the height of her manipulation: juggling multiple men, lying about her past, painting herself as the victim, and living multiple lives at once. According to Shelby, Rachel was carrying on affairs while married, hiding relationships, and laying the groundwork for the same patterns of deception that would later explode into false allegations, fabricated evidence, and the destruction of Mark Neville’s life.Shelby describes meeting Rachel in 2001 and seeing what so many others saw first: a woman who appeared sweet, intelligent, compassionate, and believable. But behind that carefully crafted image, Shelby says, was something much darker—a pattern of lies, image management, infidelity, emotional manipulation, and calculated deceit.This episode connects major pieces of the Rachel Neville story, including: Rachel’s false victim narrative, her claims about being a valedictorian and attending UCLA Law, her relationships with multiple men at the same time, her involvement with Mark Neville, Bobby Reynolds, a Hollywood producer, and Brian Lewis, and the fear she still inspires in people who knew her decades ago.Shelby’s testimony helps paint a larger picture of a long-running pattern: fraud, manipulation, bigamy, false narratives, relationship scams, and reputational destruction. Her account also shows why so many former friends, partners, and witnesses stayed silent for years.If you’ve been following the story of Rachel Neville, the alleged cancer scam, the claims of fake pregnancies, false police reports, fabricated evidence, and the campaign against Mark Neville, this is one of the most important witness episodes of the season.This is not just a story about the past. It’s about fear that still exists in the present.The Messenger: The Rachel Cancer Scam is an investigative true crime podcast examining deception, coercive control, false allegations, fake illness claims, and the long trail of damage left behind.In this episode and all remaining episodes the music at the end of the podcast has been provided by Natalie Haskins, a singer songwriter that splits her time between the Central Coast of California and Ireland. The song is a minor re-write of her song 4am Regret. Find Natalie here: https://www.youtube.com/@NatalieHaskinsMusic #TheMessengerPodcast #TheRachelCancerScam #RachelNeville #TrueCrimePodcast #TrueCrime #CancerScam #FakeCancer #Fraud #FalseAllegations #InvestigativePodcast #Scam #Bigamy #Deception #CoerciveControl #MarkNevilleSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
- Apr 2, 202634 min
Season 2. Episode 29. Rachel’s First Husband Breaks 25 Years of Silence
In Episode 29 of The Rachel Cancer Scam, Todd, Rachel’s first husband, a former police officer, prosecutor, and now defense attorney — finally breaks his silence about the four-and-a-half-month marriage that exposed a pattern of deception stretching back more than two decades.Todd takes us back to Houston in the late 1990s, where he first met Rachel Gage at the University of Houston. What followed was a whirlwind romance, a Hawaii wedding, disappearances, alleged fabricated stories, infidelity, manipulation, and a marriage that collapsed almost as quickly as it began. Todd describes the lies he uncovered, the moment he realized something was deeply wrong, and the chilling pattern that would later repeat itself with other men in Rachel’s life.This episode is one of the most important in the series because Todd’s story is not just history — it is the blueprint. The disappearing acts. The blame-shifting. The attacks when questioned. The rehearsed deception. The same tactics that show up again and again in later chapters of this investigation.Todd also opens up about the long-term damage: the humiliation, the loss of trust, the emotional scars, and the closure that came decades later when members of Rachel’s own family finally acknowledged what he had been put through.If you have been following The Rachel Cancer Scam podcast, this is a critical episode. It connects the past to the present and shows that the conduct at the center of this story did not begin recently. It began years ago.In this episode:Todd recounts meeting Rachel at the University of HoustonA short marriage in Hawaii that ended in chaosThe early lies, disappearances, and infidelityThe now-familiar pattern of attack, denial, and reversalWhy Todd’s story matters to understanding the full Rachel Cancer Scam timelineThe emotional cost of surviving deception years laterThe Rachel Cancer Scam is an investigative true crime podcast examining allegations of fraud, manipulation, fabricated illness narratives, false accusations, and the trail of damage left behind.If you know Rachel, have relevant information, or believe you may have been impacted, please reach out.#TheRachelCancerScam #TrueCrimePodcast #InvestigativePodcast #RachelNeville #PodcastEpisode #TrueCrime #ScamStory #FraudInvestigation #Deception #ManipulationSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
- Dec 18, 202546 min
Season 2. Episode 28. Part 2 of Harry's interview on the PRETEND Podcast with Javier
Part 2 of Harry's conversation, Harry sits down with Javier, host of the acclaimed PRETEND true crime podcast, to dissect the decades-long romance scam at the center of The Rachel Cancer Scam. Javier binge-listens to ten episodes in one sitting and comes in hot with the question nobody has asked Harry directly: “Are you still in love with the woman you’re calling a con artist?”What follows is a raw, investigative breakdown of Rachel – a woman who went from beauty pageants and escort work to becoming a high-level scammer capable of running multiple cons at once:fake cancer, fake domestic violence, fake suicide attempts, fake friends, fake careers as a lawyer, trauma nurse, and helicopter pilot, and a trail of devastated partners, coworkers, and children.Javier and Harry talk like two investigators comparing notes – timelines, receipts, phone records, skip traces. Javier pushes for proof. Harry brings text messages, calls, screenshots, and years of documentation that show Rachel isn’t just a liar… she’s operating at the level of a female Frank Abagnale, running simultaneous scams for attention, control, and status, not just money.This episode is more than a wild true crime story. It’s a cautionary tale about romance scams, narcissistic abuse, and how even the most self-aware, “street-smart” person can be out-skilled by someone whose entire personality is built around deception.👉 Watch the video version of this interview on YouTube:youtube.com/@TheRachelCancerScam🎧 Listen to Javier’s edited version of this interview on the PRETEND podcast and give him a follow wherever you get your true crime podcasts.#TheRachelCancerScam #TheMessengerPodcast #TrueCrimePodcast #PretendPodcast #RomanceScam #CancerScam #ConArtist #NarcissisticAbuse #CoerciveControl #Gaslighting #FraudStories #FemaleConArtist #TrueCrimeCommunity #InvestigativePodcast #StorytellingPodcast #EmotionalAbuse #RelationshipScam #FakeCancer #FakeNurse #FakePilot #HighLevelScammer #CautionaryTale #SurvivorStorySee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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