Who’d be a scammer? These days, any grifter worth their salt is more likely to find their faces plastered across their streamer of choice than being able to retire into obscurity with their stolen cash. Anna Sorokin, the Tinder Swindler, Elizabeth Holmes: all have earned the dubious honour of a fictionalised retelling, and now Melissa Caddick is on the list too.
Based on the obligatory real-life story (in fact, there is a tie-in documentary coming out on the same day), ITVX’s new three-part drama Vanishing Act starts with the denouement – some unlucky beachgoers find Melissa’s gag-inducing severed foot washed up on the shore – and winds back in time to find out how we got there.
