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We're. All too familiar with these kinds
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of stories and out with this well
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personality praise on the desperation of someone
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going through the worst moment of their
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life seeking answers, seeking help. But. What
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happens when that person providing the
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outset? a someone you're supposed to
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trust. A doctor who promises
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hope survival, a cure for
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Aids. Wouldn't. You do anything he
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said to save yourself. From. Laundry
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comes the new season of
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the renowned podcast Dr. Death titled
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Bad Much And this isn't just
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some doctor, it's a famous
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one. A man with prominent celebrity
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endorsements, a credible biotech business, a
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big reputation, and yes, a
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quirky fascination with magic. Don't
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miss this season. a story of
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deceit, narcissism, humanity and murder.
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Were. About to play clip from Dr.
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Death Bad Magic. Follow Dr. Death Bad
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Magic on the Wonder Yeah or wherever
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you get your podcasts. It
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was late on a freezing Saturday
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night in Northern Vermont. Greg Davis
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was in his bedroom with his
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wife Melissa when they heard someone
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outside. Greg
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open the door and saw man
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standing there wearing a jacket and
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mask with the emblem of the
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Us Marshal. He was holding a
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rifle. Behind him
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in the driveway was a white
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Ford Explorer with emergency lights flashing
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and it's-the marshall said he had
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a warrant for Greg's arrest on
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racketeering charges, had been instructed to
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take him into custody and transport
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him to Virginia. Greg
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couldn't have known what this was all about.
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He. Was working in waste management. His
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friends and family knew him as a
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father of six, a business man and
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a devout Christian. We
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went to his bedroom and told his pregnant
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wife what was happening. In
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fact, magazines and. Davis'
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twelve year old son watched from the
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upstairs window as a car pulled away.
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It was the last time he
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saw his father allies. The
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last afternoon, a car made it's
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way along a quiet stretch of
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Peachum Load about fifteen miles from
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Greg Davis. Is Farmhouse. It
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was another food elites whole
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day, fairly cracking ten degrees.
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Just off the side of the road he
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drives. Son has enough from. It
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was a sheath shutting out as a
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snowbank. There
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on the ground, partially covered by
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the snow with a man's body.
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says. Restore shackled twenty.
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Two caliber bullet wounds in his head and
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torso with bullet. Casing circling the snow
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bank. Greg
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Davis was dead. How
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had all this happened?
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Prosecutors? Would later claim it all
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trace back to a man whose life
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had long been cloaked in mystery and
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who was nowhere near Vermont that night.
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Is good afternoon everyone! It is
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truly my great pleasure to welcome
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the Nokia Bio Sciences. Less
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than a year after Greg Davis
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his body was found in the
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Vermont snow, the Ceo of an
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emerging biotech company stood at a
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sleek white lectern in Times Square.
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The very first time I met when the sea
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level of Sherman he told me will be a
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nosedive. Listed companies. And
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Nokia. Bio Science is now traded
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alongside tech giants like Apple and
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Microsoft that the Ceo wasn't taking
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the credit. The success of the
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company is largely thanks to a
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man the standing just to see
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the man with the idea that
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drove and okay and Bio Science
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as to it's six hundred million
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dollar valuation. A man was sort
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dyed blonde hair, stubble and an
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impish smile. The very
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first time I met through google goog
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a Will scientific folder he told me
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will be the company that would put
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an end to it radiates. Years
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there has to root. Access
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Thirty six years old Dr. Sarah
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How was leading a mission to
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and Hiv. Aids forever. He
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was also working on cure
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for cancer, hepatitis, and a
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host of other disease His
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case. Saw him as America. Compared.
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Him to Leonardo da Vinci, Nikola
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Tesla, and Einstein and one and
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the same person. But
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in a few years. He wouldn't be
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mean some world changing three. He
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would be known as a fraud. And
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