Cocaine Mule Mom - 14

Locked Up Abroad

Wondery

Drugsmuggling, Oliver Stone, Society & Culture, Prison, Overseas, Jim Clemente, Locked, National Geographic, Billy Hayes, Abroad, Exhibit C, Smuggling, Drugs, Vacation, Midnight Express, Crime, Riveting

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Ruthie Lambert was deep in the abyss of a midlife crisis, debt and foreclosure on her home when friends suggest that she can make a quick $10,000 by bringing drugs back from Peru. The appeal of easy money brings her back again and again. After a few successful jobs she decides it’s time to get out, but agrees to one more trip, where her luck finally runs out.

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0:00.0	I needed $3,000 a month for the mortgage to keep my home.
0:07.0	John said I'm going to pay to him. can keep my home.
0:17.0	Johnny said I'm going to pay 10,000 American dollars. Thanks, Ruthie.
0:18.0	This is an answer to my problems.
0:21.0	I can't believe I'm even considering buying cocaine from a Peruvian police officer.
0:26.0	This is just getting way out of control.
0:30.0	I was scared to death.
0:33.0	I'm in really big trouble.
0:36.0	This was a life or death situation.
0:40.0	My biggest fear was that I would never see my children again.
0:45.0	I had to plan and escape.
0:49.0	Hi, it's me, the O.G. Green Grum, the Grinch.
0:52.0	Listen as I launch a campaign against Criagrump. me, the O.G. Green Grump, the Grinch.
0:52.7	Listen as I launch a campaign against Christmas cheer,
0:55.9	grilling celebrity guests, like chestnuts on an open fire.
0:59.7	They'll try to get my heart to grow a few sizes,
1:01.9	but it's not going to work honey.
1:03.4	Follow Tis the Grinch Holiday Talk Show on the Wundry app or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:08.6	I'm Carrie Mulligan, the host of I Hear Fear, a new anthology series of terror.
1:14.4	You and I know that the best scary stories
1:16.8	are the ones we tell each other in the dark.
1:18.9	So turn off your lights and close your eyes.
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