WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.040 --> 00:00:07.280 A few years ago, my wife and my daughter in law were talking about 2 00:00:07.320 --> 00:00:11.759 a podcast that they were listening to. It was a podcast called Doctor Death. 3 00:00:11.839 --> 00:00:14.960 At that point in my life, I had never listened to a podcast. 4 00:00:15.119 --> 00:00:18.760 It sounded interesting, so I asked them to send me a link, 5 00:00:19.320 --> 00:00:24.399 and that night I started listening to that podcast with my headphones on, and 6 00:00:24.519 --> 00:00:29.960 I was absolutely consumed with this podcast and to this day, and it just 7 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:34.240 so happens that to this day, the very first podcast I listened to is 8 00:00:34.320 --> 00:00:37.719 one of the top podcasts that I've ever listened to in my life, and 9 00:00:37.759 --> 00:00:42.039 I listened to a lot of them. The Doctor Death podcast. The original 10 00:00:42.280 --> 00:00:47.320 Doctor Death is Unbelievable. Now I'm going to tell you about a new Doctor 11 00:00:47.359 --> 00:00:54.000 Death podcast that you're gonna really really love. From Wondery and hosted by Laura 12 00:00:54.079 --> 00:01:00.960 Beal, The critically acclaimed Doctor Death is back with a new season. Bad 13 00:01:00.119 --> 00:01:06.920 Magic, a story of miraculous cures, magic and murder. When a charismatic 14 00:01:07.000 --> 00:01:11.920 hot shot doctor announced the revolutionary treatment for cancer and HIV, it seemed like 15 00:01:11.959 --> 00:01:18.840 the world had been given a miracle cure. Medical experts rushed to praise doctor 16 00:01:18.879 --> 00:01:23.159 sir Hatguruku, a genius who was the co founder of the cutting edge biotech 17 00:01:23.200 --> 00:01:30.000 company. Hopeful patients and families from across the globe turned to him for one 18 00:01:30.079 --> 00:01:34.280 last chance. But when the company stopped skyrocketed to over a half a billion 19 00:01:34.319 --> 00:01:41.040 dollars, a team of private researchers dove into Sirhat's background and they began to 20 00:01:41.040 --> 00:01:46.439 suspect the brilliant doctor was hiding a shocking secret. And when a man was 21 00:01:46.480 --> 00:01:51.319 found dead in the snow, with his wrists shackled and bullet casings speckling the 22 00:01:51.359 --> 00:01:57.359 snowbank, Sir Hat would no longer be known for world changing treatments. He'd 23 00:01:57.400 --> 00:02:01.480 be known as a fraud and a key suspect in a grizzly murder. I'm 24 00:02:01.519 --> 00:02:07.840 going to play for you a clip from Doctor Death, Bad Magic. Follow 25 00:02:07.039 --> 00:02:23.680 Doctor Death on the Wondery app or wherever you get your podcasts. It was 26 00:02:23.800 --> 00:02:30.199 late on a freezing Saturday night in northern Vermont. Greg Davis was in his 27 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:42.199 bedroom with his wife Melissa when they heard someone outside. Greg opened the door 28 00:02:42.280 --> 00:02:46.639 and saw a man standing there wearing a jacket and mask with the emblem of 29 00:02:46.680 --> 00:02:52.719 the US Marshal. He was holding a rifle. Behind him in the driveway 30 00:02:52.919 --> 00:02:58.800 was a white Ford Explorer with emergency lights flashing in its dash. The marshall 31 00:02:58.840 --> 00:03:02.439 said he had a warrant for Egg's arrest on racketeering charges, had been instructed 32 00:03:02.439 --> 00:03:08.120 to take him into custody and transport him to Virginia. Greg couldn't have known 33 00:03:08.159 --> 00:03:13.599 what this was all about. He was working in waste management. His friends 34 00:03:13.599 --> 00:03:16.120 and family knew him as a father of six, a businessman, and a 35 00:03:16.199 --> 00:03:22.520 devout Christian. He went to his bedroom and told his pregnant wife what was 36 00:03:22.560 --> 00:03:30.719 happening, then packed a bag of clothes and walked out. Davis's twelve year 37 00:03:30.759 --> 00:03:37.599 old son watched from the upstairs window as the car pulled away. It was 38 00:03:37.680 --> 00:03:46.360 the last time he saw his father alive. The next afternoon, a car 39 00:03:46.400 --> 00:03:52.360 made its way along a quiet stretch of Peacham Road, about fifteen miles from 40 00:03:52.400 --> 00:03:59.199 Greg Davis's farmhouse. It was another brutally cold day, barely cracking ten degrees. 41 00:04:00.840 --> 00:04:03.759 Just off the side of the road, the driver saw something out of 42 00:04:03.800 --> 00:04:11.479 place. It was a shape jutting out of the snow bank. There on 43 00:04:11.520 --> 00:04:16.120 the ground, partially covered by snow, was a man's body. His wrists 44 00:04:16.120 --> 00:04:20.600 were shackled. Twenty two caliber bullet wounds in his head and torso with bullet 45 00:04:20.639 --> 00:04:30.800 casing speckling the snowbank. Greg Davis was dead. How had all this happened? 46 00:04:30.720 --> 00:04:34.800 Prosecutors would later claim it all traced back to a man whose life had 47 00:04:34.879 --> 00:04:40.160 long been cloaked in mystery, and who was nowhere near Vermont that night. 48 00:04:42.680 --> 00:04:46.839 Well, good afternoon, everyone, It is truly my great pleasure to welcome 49 00:04:46.879 --> 00:04:51.199 Anokian Biosciences. Less than a year after Greg Davis's body was found in the 50 00:04:51.279 --> 00:04:57.680 Vermont snow, the CEO of an emerging biotech company stood at a sleek white 51 00:04:57.759 --> 00:05:01.079 lectern in Times Square. The very first time I met Ronesti lev Or, 52 00:05:01.199 --> 00:05:08.040 chairman, he told me will be a Nasdaq listed company. Anokian Bioscience is 53 00:05:08.120 --> 00:05:13.959 now traded alongside tech giants like Apple and Microsoft. But the CEO wasn't taking 54 00:05:13.959 --> 00:05:17.439 the credit. The success of the company was largely thanks to a man who 55 00:05:17.519 --> 00:05:24.519 was standing just offstage, the man with the ideas that drove an Okian Biosciences 56 00:05:24.560 --> 00:05:30.240 to its six hundred million dollar valuation. A man with short dyed blonde hair, 57 00:05:30.480 --> 00:05:35.680 stubble and an impish smile. The very first time I met Sarah Kumuku, 58 00:05:36.240 --> 00:05:40.160 our scientific founder. He told me, will be the company that will 59 00:05:40.160 --> 00:05:49.680 put an end to HIV AIDS. Doctor sar hopkem Rupchuw. At just thirty 60 00:05:49.680 --> 00:05:56.040 six years old, Doctor Saraha was leading a mission to end HIV AIDS forever. 61 00:05:56.639 --> 00:06:00.480 He was also working on cures for cancer, hepatitis B, and a 62 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:04.680 host of other diseases. His patients saw him as a miracle worker. His 63 00:06:04.839 --> 00:06:10.720 colleagues compared him to Leonardo da Vinci, Nikola Tesla, and Einstein in one 64 00:06:10.839 --> 00:06:15.800 and the same person. But in a few years he wouldn't be known for 65 00:06:15.920 --> 00:06:20.560 world changing treatments. He would be known as a fraud and a key suspect 66 00:06:20.959 --> 00:06:30.439 in a grizzly murder. Okay, that should make you want to go listen 67 00:06:30.600 --> 00:06:35.879 to this Doctor Death, Bad Magic podcast. Listen to it early and ad 68 00:06:35.920 --> 00:06:43.560 free right now by joining Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts.