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Nuisance Value

Nuisance Value

Broadcast: March 23, 1955
Added: Mar 25 2021

All criminal investigations by your FBI are not necessarily centered on violence, theft and espionage. In the Bureau's files there are cases which seem mild enough on the surface, and yet have often been responsible for as much anguish and heartache as the cruelest and most reprehensible. Such a case was the one that capitalised on nuisance value - a swindle so irritating, so exasperating in nature that the victims virtually begged their tormentors to relieve them of their money. Essential to the operation were the following... An attractive home in the country; a less than modest one across the way; and a phoney family of swindlers devoted to the provoking purpose of making an out-and-out nuisance of themselves...