Listen Now - Dr. Death: Bad Magic

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Like so many of you, I've
been obsessed with the Doctor Death series on

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Wonderre since the first episode dropped.
We're all too familiar with these kinds of

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stories, an out of this world
personality praise on the desperation of someone going

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through the worst moment of their life, seeking answers, seeking help. But

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what happens when that person providing the
answers is someone you're supposed to trust,

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A doctor who promises hope, survival, a cure for AIDS. Wouldn't you

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do anything he said to save yourself
from wondery? Comes the newest season of

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the renowned podcast Doctor Death, title
of Bad Magic. And this isn't just

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some doctor. It's a famous one, a man with prominent celebrity endorsements,

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a credible biotech business, a big
reputation, and yes, a quirky fascination

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with magic. Don't miss this season, a story of deceased narcissism, humanity,

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and murderer. I'm about to play
a clip from Doctor Death, Bad

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Magic. Follow Doctor Death Bad Magic
on the Wondery app or wherever you get

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your podcasts. It was late on
a freezing Saturday night in northern Vermont.

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Greg Davis was in his bedroom with
his wife Melissa, when they heard someone

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outside. Greg opened the door and
saw a man standing there wearing a jacket

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and mask with the emblem of the
US Marshal. He was holding a rifle.

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Behind him in the driveway was a
white Ford Explorer with emergency lights flashing

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in its dash. The Marshal said
he had a warrant for Greg's arrest on

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racketeering charges had been instructed to take
him into custody and transport him to Virginia.

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Greg couldn't have known what this was
all about. He was working in

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waste management. His friends and family
knew him as a father of six,

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a businessman, and a devout Christian. He went to his bedroom and told

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his pregnant wife what was happening,
then packed a bag of clothes and walked

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out. Davis's twelve year old son
watched from the upstairs window as the car

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pulled away. It was the last
time he saw his father alive. The

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next afternoon, a car made its
way along a quiet stretch of Peacham Road,

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about fifteen miles from Greg Davis's farmhouse. It was another brutally cold day,

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barely cracking ten degrees, just off
the side of the road, the

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driver saw something out of place.
It was a shape jutting out of the

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snow bank. There on the ground, partially covered by snow, was a

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man's body. His wrists were shackled, twenty two caliber bullet wounds in his

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head and torso with bullet casing speckling
the snowbank. Greg Davis was dead.

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How had all this happened? Prosecutors
would later claim it all traced back to

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a man whose life had long been
cloaked in mystery, and who was nowhere

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near Vermont that night. Well,
good afternoon, everyone, It is truly

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my great pleasure to welcome Anokian Biosciences. Less than a year after Greg Davis's

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body was found in the Vermont snow, the CEO of an emerging biotech company

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stood at a sleek white lectern in
Times Square. The very first time I

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met Ronestin lev Or chairman, he
told me, will be a Nasdaq listed

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company. Anokian Bioscience is now traded
alongside tech giants like Apple and Microsoft,

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But the CEO wasn't taking the credit. The success of the company was largely

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thanks to a man who was standing
just offstage. The man with the ideas

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that drove an Okian Biosciences to its
six hundred million dollar valuation. A man

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with short dyed blonde hair, stubble
and an impish smile. The very first

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time I met Sarah Kumruku, our
scientific founder, he told me, will

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be the company that could put an
end to HIV AIDS. Doctor sar hadkem

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Ruche. At just thirty six years
old, Doctor Sarha was leading a mission

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to end HIV AIDS forever. He
was also working on cures for cancer,

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hepatitis B, and a host of
other diseases. His patients saw him as

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a miracle worker. His colleagues compared
him to Leonardo da Vinci, Nikola Tesla,

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and Einstein in one and the same
person. But in a few years

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he wouldn't be known for world changing
treatments. He would be known as a

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fraud and a key suspect in a
grizzly murder binge. All episodes of Doctor

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