Speaker 1: Listeners, I have a new show that I think you're
Speaker 1: going to love. From Wondery and hosted by Laura Bale,
Speaker 1: the critically acclaimed Doctor Death is back with a new season,
Speaker 1: Doctor Death, Bad Magic, a story of miraculous cures, magic
Speaker 1: and murder. When a charismatic, hotshot doctor announced revolutionary treatments
Speaker 1: for cancer and HIV, it seemed like the world had
Speaker 1: been given a miracle cure. Medical experts rushed to praise
Speaker 1: doctor sir Hat Gumruku, a genius who is the co
Speaker 1: founder of a cutting edge biotech company. Hopeful patients and
Speaker 1: families from across the globe turned to him for one
Speaker 1: last chance. But when the company stalk skyrocketed to over
Speaker 1: half a billion dollars, a team of private researchers dive
Speaker 1: into sir Hat's background and they begin to suspect the
Speaker 1: brilliant doctor is hiding a shocking secret. And when a
Speaker 1: man is found dead in the snow, with his wrists
Speaker 1: shackled and bullet casing speckling the snowbank, Sir Hat would
Speaker 1: no longer be known for world changing treatments. He'd be
Speaker 1: known as a fraud and a key suspect in a
Speaker 1: grisly murder. I'm about to play a clip from Doctor Death,
Speaker 1: Bad Magic. Follow Doctor Death on the Wondery app or
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Speaker 2: It was late on a freezing Saturday night in northern Vermont.
Speaker 2: Greg Davis was in his bedroom with his wife Melissa,
Speaker 2: when they heard someone outside. Greg opened the door and
Speaker 2: saw a man standing there wearing a jacket and mask
Speaker 2: with the of the U S. Marshal. He was holding
Speaker 2: a rifle. Behind him in the driveway was a white
Speaker 2: Ford Explorer with emergency lights flashing in its dash. The
Speaker 2: Marshal said he had a warrant for Greg's arrest on
Speaker 2: racketeering charges, had been instructed to take him into custody
Speaker 2: and transport him to Virginia. Greg couldn't have known what
Speaker 2: this was all about. He was working in waste management.
Speaker 2: His friends and family knew him as a father of six,
Speaker 2: a businessman, and a devout Christian. He went to his
Speaker 2: bedroom and told his pregnant wife what was happening, then
Speaker 2: packed a bag of clothes and walked out. Davis's twelve
Speaker 2: year old son watched from the upstairs window as the
Speaker 2: car pulled away. It was the last time he saw
Speaker 2: his father alive. The next after noon, a car made
Speaker 2: its way along a quiet stretch of Peacham Road, about
Speaker 2: fifteen miles from Greg Davis's farmhouse. It was another brutally
Speaker 2: cold day, barely cracking ten degrees. Just off the side
Speaker 2: of the road, the driver saw something out of place.
Speaker 2: It was a shape jutting out of the snowbank. There
Speaker 2: on the ground, partially covered by snow, was a man's body.
Speaker 2: His wrists were shackled, twenty two caliber bullet wounds in
Speaker 2: his head and torso with bullet casing speckling the snowbank.
Speaker 2: Greg Davis was dead. How had all this happened? Prosecutors
Speaker 2: would later claim it all traced back to a man
Speaker 2: whose life had long been cloaked in mystery, and who
Speaker 2: was nowhere near Vermont that night.
Speaker 1: Well, good afternoon, everyone, It is truly my great pleasure
Speaker 1: to welcome Anochian Biosciences.
Speaker 2: Less than a year after Greg Davis's body was found
Speaker 2: in the Vermont snow, the CEO of an emerging biotech
Speaker 2: company stood at a sleek white lectern in Times Square.
Speaker 3: The very first time I met Ronesti Leva, or chairman,
Speaker 3: he told me, will be a Nasdaq listed.
Speaker 2: Company, Anochian Bioscience is now traded alongside tech giants like
Speaker 2: Apple and Microsoft, But the CEO wasn't taking the credit.
Speaker 2: The success of the company was largely thanks to a
Speaker 2: man who was standing just offstage. The man with the
Speaker 2: ideas that drove Anokian Biosciences to its six hundred million
Speaker 2: dollar valuation, a man with short dyed blonde hair, stubble
Speaker 2: and an impish smile.
Speaker 3: The very first time I met Sarah Kumuku, our scientific founder,
Speaker 3: he told me, will be the company that will put
Speaker 3: an end to HIV AIDS.
Speaker 2: Doctor sar hodgm Rupchuw, at just thirty six years old,
Speaker 2: Doctor Sarhaw was leading a mission to end HIV AIDS forever.
Speaker 2: He was also working on cures for cancer, hepatitis B,
Speaker 2: and a host of other diseases. His patients saw him
Speaker 2: as a miracle worker. His colleagues compared him to Leonardo
Speaker 2: da Vinci, Nikola Tesla, and Einstein in one and the
Speaker 2: same person. But in a few years he wouldn't be
Speaker 2: known for world changing treatments. He would be known as
Speaker 2: a fraud and a key suspect in a grizzly murder.
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