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I'm about to play a clip from Dr.

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Death, Bad Magic. Follow Dr.

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Death, Bad Magic on the Wondery app

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or wherever you get your podcasts. It

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was late on a freezing Saturday night

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in northern Vermont. Greg

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Davis was in his bedroom with his wife

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Melissa when they heard someone

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outside. Greg

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opened the door and saw a man

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standing there wearing a jacket and mask

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with the emblem of the U.S. Marshal.

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He was holding a rifle. Behind

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him in the driveway was a white

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Ford Explorer with emergency lights flashing in

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its dash. The

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Marshal said he had a warrant for Greg's

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arrest on racketeering charges. He'd

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been instructed to take him into custody

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and transport him to Virginia. Greg

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

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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 businessman, and a

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devout Christian. He

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went to his bedroom and told his pregnant

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wife what was happening, then packed

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a bag of clothes and walked out. Davis'

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12-year-old son watched from the upstairs window

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as the car pulled away. It

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was the last time he saw his father alive.

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The next afternoon, a car made its

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way along a quiet stretch of Peachum

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Road, about 15 miles

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from Greg Davis' farmhouse. It

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was another brutally cold day,

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barely cracking 10 degrees. Just

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off the side of the road, the The driver saw

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something out of sleep. It

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was a shape jutting out of the snow

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bank. There

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on the ground, partially covered by

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snow, was a man's body.

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His wrists were shackled. 22

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caliber bullet wounds in his head and torso

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with bullet casing speckling the snow bank.

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Greg Davis was dead. How

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had all this happened? Prosecutors

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would later claim it all traced back to

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a man whose life had long been cloaked

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in mystery and who was

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nowhere near Vermont that night. Well,

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good afternoon, everyone. It is truly

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my great pleasure to welcome an

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Okean biosciences. Less than

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a year after Greg Davis's body was

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found in the Vermont snow, the

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CEO of an emerging biotech company

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stood at a sleek white lectern

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in Times Square. The

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very first time I met Ron S. Inlev, our

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chairman, he told me we'll be a NASA-aclisted company.

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An Okean biosciences now traded

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alongside tech giants like Apple

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and Microsoft. But the

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CEO wasn't taking the credit. The

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success of the company was largely

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thanks to a man who was standing just

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off stage. The man

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with the ideas that drove An Okean

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biosciences to its $600 million valuation. A

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man with short-dyed blonde hair, stubble,

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and an impish smile. The

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very first time I met

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Serhat Gamruku, our scientific founder,

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he told me we'll be the company that

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will put an end to HIV AIDS. Dr.

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Serhat Gamruku. At

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just 36 years old, Dr. Serhat

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was leading a mission to end

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HIV AIDS forever. He

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was also working on cures for cancer,

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hepatitis B, and a host of other

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diseases. His patients. saw

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him as a miracle. His

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colleagues compared him to Leonardo da

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Vinci, Nikola Tesla and Einstein in

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one and the same person. But

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in a few years he wouldn't be

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known for world changing treatment. He

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would be known as a fraud and

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a key suspect in a grisly

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murder. Listen

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