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The pitch went like this Chris Butler, a retired cop, ran a private investigator firm in Concord, California. His business had a fascinating anglehis firm was staffed entirely by soccer moms.In fact, Butler employed PI Super Moms attractive, organized, smart, and trained in investigative techniques, self-defense, and weaponry. This American Life host Ira Glass described them as MILF Charlies Angels. When this story came across Pete Crookss desk when he was working at Diablo magazine in 2010, he was instantly hooked. Hed heard a little bit about Butler and his super moms in the news theyd been featured in People magazine and on Dr. Phil. What Butlers publicist was offering was too tantalizing to pass up an opportunity to ride along with Butler and a few of his sexy PIs as they prepared to start filming a reality TV show.
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Pete Crooks is a Bay Area-based journalist, and the author of the seminal investigative story about one of the Bay Area's most sensational crime and corruption stories in recent history. For the past 14 years, Crooks has been one of the editors of Diablo magazine, and was on assignment for the magazine when he broke the incredible crime scandal detailed in The Setup: A True Story of Soccer Moms, Dirty Cops, and Reality TV. Crooks's reporting on this stranger than fiction story about reality show wannabes, duplicitous soccer moms, and a conspiracy involving corrupt cops and a sociopath private investigator received national acclaim, inspiring episodes of the award-winning radio program This American Life and 48 Hours on CBS news, for which Crooks served as an official consultant.
