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Could this famous con man be lying about his story? A new book suggests he is

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* [93]Xavier LopezApril 23, 2021

[94]Listen 10:23 Frank W. Abagnale Jr. (second from the right) is
famous for his audacious cons, documented in the blockbuster movie
“Catch Me If You Can.” But science writer Alan Logan says the real
grift is Abagnale’s entire life story. (Rene Macura/AP Photo) Frank W.
Abagnale Jr. (second from the right) is famous for his audacious cons,
documented in the blockbuster movie “Catch Me If You Can.” But science
writer Alan Logan says the real grift is Abagnale’s entire life story.
(Rene Macura/AP Photo)

Frank W. Abagnale Jr. (second from the right) is famous for his
audacious cons, documented in the blockbuster movie “Catch Me If You
Can.” But science writer Alan Logan says the real grift is Abagnale’s
entire life story. (Rene Macura/AP Photo)

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Frank W. Abagnale Jr. may have pulled off one of the greatest hoaxes on
earth.

Abagnale’s famous tale of forging checks and assuming different
professional identities has captured national audiences through
pop-culture adaptations, most famously the 2002 Steven Spielberg film,
“Catch Me if You Can,” starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks. It was
developed from [99]Abagnale’s memoir of the same name.

The story goes that between the mid-1960s and the early 1970s, Abagnale
lived out many lives as an impostor. He pretended to be a pilot for Pan
American airlines, a doctor in Georgia, a lawyer for the attorney
general’s office in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and a professor at Brigham
Young University. He also cashed more than $2 million worth of bad
checks in over 26 countries. All this, he claimed, while still a
teenager and while being chased by the FBI.

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The movie was a hit, winning tons of awards and garnering many more
nominations.

But though the movie claims to be based on a true story, creating the
myth of Frank W. Abagnale Jr. might be the best con that Abagnale
actually pulled. A new book contends that the story of the charming
teen running from the FBI and pulling off all those impersonations
without getting caught is mostly made up.

Science journalist Alan C. Logan remembers watching the film on
videocassette after it came out and thinking that there was just
something off about it.

“I remember just having this nagging feeling and that something just
wasn’t quite right about it,” Logan said. “And that was that. That
thought, you know, went into the back of my mind for a couple of
decades almost.”

Logan eventually revisited that nagging feeling. In early 2020, he
wrote a book about [101]Robert Vernon Spears, a medical con man who was
the suspect in a mysterious commercial airline disaster in 1959.

“And everyone who read the book started comparing Spears, who was
verifiable … to Abagnale, to ‘Catch Me if You Can.’ And I just thought,
well, let me look into [it] a little bit. And nothing was adding up,
nothing was verifiable.”

Logan said what he found blew his mind. His book about it is called
“[102]The Greatest Hoax on Earth: Catching Truth, While We Can.”

The real Frank

Logan used public records and newspaper clippings to find out the real
story. He even spoke to people who knew Abagnale before the myth about
his life took off, including a flight attendant Abagnale met in 1969 in
an encounter that eventually led to his incarceration.

“What really happened was that, dressed as a TWA (Trans World Airlines)
pilot, which he only did for a few weeks, [Abagnale] befriended a
flight attendant called Paula Parks,” Logan said. “He followed her all
over the Eastern Seaboard, identified her work schedule through
deceptive means, and essentially stalked the woman.”

Parks didn’t know what to do with him. She tried to tell him that she
wasn’t interested, but he was persistent. He even showed up at her
apartment in New Orleans. She told him then that she was going to go
visit her parents in Baton Rouge, and he tagged along.

“So Frank Abagnale meets her parents in Baton Rouge. Frank and Paula …
part ways, and a few days later, Frank Abagnale shows back up at [her
parents’] house in Baton Rouge and said, ‘Hey, I’m Paula’s friend.
Remember me? I’m on furlough as a pilot.’ And they invited him in out
of kindness.”

Abagnale stayed with the family for a while, in Parks’ room, and she
was mortified. She didn’t trust him, but her family did. They cooked
meals for him, and introduced him to people in Baton Rouge. He would
take the family out to dinner and buy them flowers, earning their
trust. All the while he was doing that with checks he stole from them,
which he had rifled through. He stole about $1,200 from the family, and
more from local businesses in Baton Rouge. In his book, Abagnale
claimed that he never ripped off individuals, only hotels, airlines and
banks.

Eventually, he was caught and arrested.

“So Abagnale’s narrative that between the ages of 16 and 20, he was on
the run, chased all over the United States and even internationally by
the FBI. This is completely fictitious,” Logan said. “Public records
obtained by me show that he was confined for the most part in prison
during those years.”

To tell the lie

Abagnale was paroled in 1974, and moved to Friendswood, Texas, where he
was arrested once again for theft. After Abagnale got out of prison, a
parole officer encouraged him to tell his story of being a transformed
man.

It was an idea Abagnale ran with. At first, he started by giving small
lectures, telling this story of redemption, but his tale grew larger
and larger. He teamed up with a producer and eventually landed an
appearance in 1977 on a national television show called “To Tell The
Truth.”

The premise of the show was that celebrity panelists had to identify
the one person who was not lying, out of three people claiming to be
the same person. Logan said there was no fact-checking on “To Tell The
Truth.”

“And perhaps for the first time in this show’s history, you had three
liars on the stage. Two of them were instructed to lie. And then
Abagnale told multiple lies about his biography on that show.”

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Once Abagnale was on “To Tell The Truth,” he was a hit. The game show
led to further opportunities on national TV. Later that same year, he
was featured on the “Today” show with Tom Brokaw. Soon after, he was on
“The Tonight Show” with Johnny Carson.

While most people were mesmerized by the story of the con man who
impersonated a pilot, a doctor, a lawyer, and a college professor, some
were not as convinced.

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“There is amazing journalism in 1978,” Logan said. “Stephen Hall, as a
rookie journalist working for the San Francisco Chronicle, saw Abagnale
on ‘The Tonight Show’ in 1978 and started to query some of the claims.”

For example, Abagnale described stealing money from a deposit drop at
Logan Airport dressed as a security guard, with the help of two
Massachusetts state troopers.

Hall investigated, and debunked the story.
Stephen Hall’s article debunking Abagnale’s story (left) on the front
page of the San Francisco Chronicle in 1978. (Screenshot via San
Francisco Chronicle)

Two months later, another journalist took on the Abagnale tale. Ira
Perry, a reporter for The Daily Oklahoman, did a line-by-line debunking
of the story when Abagnale was scheduled to visit Oklahoma City for one
of his talks.

Perry investigated some of Abagnale’s bigger claims, including that he
recruited young women at the University of Arizona to tour Europe with
him on Pan Am’s dime and that he stole $2.5 million from them through
bad checks. The scene with the flight attendants was dramatized in the
movie version.

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When Perry asked Pan Am spokesperson Bruce Haxthausen about the
company’s financial losses, he denied that Abagnale had ever stolen the
money.

“I’ve checked with the security people and everyone here, and it never
happened,” Haxthausen told Perry. “This is the first we’ve heard of
this, and we would have heard or at least remember[ed] it if it had
happened. You don’t forget $2.5 million in bad checks. I’d say this guy
is as phony as a $3 bill.”
Ira Hall’s article debunking Abagnale’s story on the front page of The
Daily Oklahoman in 1978. (Screenshot via Oklahoman)

And while Hall and Perry were able to unravel the story behind some of
Abagnale’s claims, his rising star overshadowed those claims.

“Much like Stephen Hall, Ira Perry was a rookie journalist up for a
challenge and did just really stunning research that really helped me
in my quest,” Logan said. “Now, the problem in the pre- digital era,
the San Francisco Chronicle piece by Hall and The Daily Oklahoman piece
by Ira Perry didn’t really go anywhere. It just stayed locally in the
environment. And Abagnale was still hopping, skipping and jumping all
over the country and selling it and getting onto shows.”

The legacy of Frank W. Abagnale Jr.

Logan writes that these articles debunking Abagnale’s claims were no
more than a little speed bump in his rise to fame. Abagnale was asked
to come back to “The Tonight Show” multiple times after his first
appearance. And, when asked about the journalism claiming to have
debunked his stories, Abagnale responded that those people the
journalists spoke to were too embarrassed to admit that they had been
conned.

Abagnale went on to write a best-selling book, which was then adapted
into both the Spielberg film and a Broadway play. Those adaptations
further legitimized Abagnale’s larger-than-life tales.

“When the movie comes out, you have major Hollywood players,” Logan
said. “These are not … C-level actors. You’re talking about the elites,
the most famous director of all time, with A-level Hollywood
celebrities playing the roles. So think about how that would then
translate. It’s got to be true because there’s no way it couldn’t be.”

Logan said Abagnale has even used the shield of the FBI to legitimize
his story.

“No one from the FBI has ever made a public statement about what
Abagnale has or hasn’t done for them,” Logan said. “He has given some
guest lectures at the academy, but he makes these outlandish statements
in the media. He’s claimed to teach ethics at the FBI.”

Abagnale sticks by his stories, continuing to tell and retell them even
today.

“Go to YouTube, you will see the [106]Talks at Google that Abagnale did
not that long ago. That video has been viewed over 11 million times.
And he makes the claim there, still, that he was an attorney general
and passed the bar exam.”

In the video, Abagnale claims that the FBI included in its [107]100th
anniversary coffee table book a section that identifies him as the only
person ever sprung out of the federal penitentiary to work for the
agency.

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“And I just recently … picked up a copy. There is, indeed, a beautiful
coffee table book printed and [109]published by the FBI. And Mr.
Abagnale’s name, as you might suspect, is nowhere to be found within
it.”

Logan said Abagnale’s story and his book are especially relevant now,
encapsulating the problem of today’s “post-truth” society. A problem
that is often exacerbated by social media.

“You have seen ample evidence of the rapid speed at which
misinformation is spread,” Logan said. “Especially when you see certain
celebrities endorsing conspiracy theories, then you [begin] to see
legitimacy and information spreads even farther, relying on what feels
true as opposed to things that are verifiable. … [It] makes it harder
to understand where the truth sits.”

This story holds a lesson for the times we live in, Logan said: People
should try to practice reflective thinking; they shouldn’t just believe
everything they hear, but should instead interrogate unlikely claims
that may come their way.

“Because I think many people, when they step back from this story and
really take a breath and really think it through, ‘Is it possible that
all this happened according to the narrative?’ And, it’s just not, it’s
not plausible,” he said. “And so reflective thinking is something, I
think, that is of extreme value to society right now.”

Alan Logan is the author of “[110]The Greatest Hoax on Earth: Catching
Truth, While We Can.“

We reached out to Frank W. Abagnale Jr. for a comment on this story. He
emailed back saying: “I have not read the book, nor do I think it is
worthy of a comment.”
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