Speaker 1: Hey, listeners. If you're looking for a new true crime
Speaker 1: podcast that will give you chills, check out Doctor Death
Speaker 1: Season three miracle Man. It is the terrifying true story
Speaker 1: of doctor Polomachiani, a charming surgeon who left a trail
Speaker 1: of bodies behind him. This season begins with a storybook
Speaker 1: romance between Benita Alexander and doctor Polomachiani. Doctor Maciani was
Speaker 1: a world famous Italian surgeon pioneering a groundbreaking new treatment
Speaker 1: that could save thousands of lives. They traveled the world together,
Speaker 1: lavish vacations, romantic getaways, and it wasn't long before he
Speaker 1: proposed to her and excitedly promised the Clintons, Obama's, and
Speaker 1: even John Legend would be at their wedding. What Benita
Speaker 1: didn't know then was that her new fiancee would take
Speaker 1: her to the center of an international medical scandal that
Speaker 1: would shock the world. Doctor Polomachiani had lied about everything,
Speaker 1: and six people would die before she would uncover. He
Speaker 1: wasn't the miracle man he made himself out to be.
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Speaker 2: It was the second night of Benita Alexander's romantic getaway
Speaker 2: in Moscow, and so far everything had been perfect.
Speaker 3: You know, the typical beautiful hotel, the tour guy, the
Speaker 3: everything over the top, the beautiful dinners.
Speaker 4: He often on these trips would give me more jewelry.
Speaker 4: He was always giving me beautiful jewelry.
Speaker 2: They'd spent the day's sight seeing and shopping and had
Speaker 2: just settled down for dinner at the Cafe Pushkin restaurant.
Speaker 2: The man who had swept her off her feet seven
Speaker 2: months earlier was sitting across the table.
Speaker 3: This man knows exactly how attractive and good looking he is,
Speaker 3: and he knows he looks like George Clooney.
Speaker 2: They'd only been seeing each other for a short time,
Speaker 2: but Benita knew she was already in love. He was handsome,
Speaker 2: caring and successful. In fact, he was here on a
Speaker 2: business trip, a new clinical trial. He'd invited Benita along,
Speaker 2: but she almost didn't make it.
Speaker 3: For months after the surgery, I'm back and forth to
Speaker 3: the doctor constantly, and they can't get rid of this infection.
Speaker 2: He'd invited Benita along, but she almost didn't make it.
Speaker 2: Just a few weeks earlier, she'd had surgery and gotten
Speaker 2: an infection, but after sam antibiotics, things seemed to be
Speaker 2: getting better. Besides, she really wanted to see Moscow.
Speaker 3: And then the infection cleared up enough that my doctor
Speaker 3: said you're fine, You're okay to travel.
Speaker 2: But now at dinner, it was clear something was very wrong.
Speaker 3: And I started having horrible pain, like piercing pain.
Speaker 2: At first, she tried to tough it out, hoping to
Speaker 2: make it through the dessert, but this was just too much.
Speaker 3: I remember squeezing Paula's hand or to the table, and
Speaker 3: I just look at him and I say, my love,
Speaker 3: something's wrong.
Speaker 2: A look of concern flashed across Paolo's face. Everything's gonna
Speaker 2: be okay, he said. He got up from the table,
Speaker 2: threw down some cash and grabbed her coat.
Speaker 4: And I could barely walk, barely get in the taxi.
Speaker 2: They made it back to their hotel.
Speaker 4: Room and he said, lie down on the bed.
Speaker 2: Benita quickly pulled off her clothes as best she could,
Speaker 2: so he could see the wound.
Speaker 3: He looked at the incision and he looked at me
Speaker 3: and he said, do you trust me? And I just
Speaker 3: looked at him, and I said, get me another glass
Speaker 3: of wine.
Speaker 2: Paolo gave a soft smile and then walked to the
Speaker 2: mini fridge. He pulled out a bottle of wine, then
Speaker 2: filled a glass to the brim and handed.
Speaker 3: It to her, which I promptly slugged and I laid down, and.
Speaker 4: He said, where are your scissors.
Speaker 3: I have these travel scissors that I was using to
Speaker 3: cut the gauze that I was covering the incision with.
Speaker 4: And I said, they're in the bathroom. And he goes
Speaker 4: in the bathroom and he gets my.
Speaker 3: Travel scissors and he is peroxideer something whatever he had
Speaker 3: to quote unquote sterilize them.
Speaker 2: He came back over to her, looked her in the.
Speaker 4: Eyes, and he said, do you trust me? And I
Speaker 4: just nodded my head.
Speaker 3: And he took those scissors and he plunged them into
Speaker 3: my incisors.
Speaker 2: The pain was unlike anything she'd felt. Benita has a
Speaker 2: high pain threshold, but for a second she thought she
Speaker 2: was going to black out. One hand was gripping the
Speaker 2: bed and the other was holding onto Paolo's shoulder. Paolo
Speaker 2: told her that he had released the pus from her
Speaker 2: infection and it would help her heal. She believed him
Speaker 2: because she trusted him. She wasn't the only one. Fellow
Speaker 2: surgeons trusted Paolo. Patients trusted Paolo, but this dashing, globe trotting,
Speaker 2: miracle working doctor would betray them all.
Speaker 4: I believe in miracles, I believe in magic, I believe
Speaker 4: in love. And it just seemed like this is going
Speaker 4: to be good.
Speaker 1: Of course, why not?
Speaker 4: And we saw more and more life in these manuscripts.
Speaker 2: Whoever said love is blind wasn't kidding. Followed Doctor Death
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