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Criminal

Dropping Like Flies

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.739.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2014

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Every year for the past few years, tens of thousand of flytraps have gone missing – from the wild, from gardens, from nurseries. And, really, nobody knows where they go. What’s cropped up in rural North Carolina is essentially a Venus Flytrap crime ring — with lackies, middle men, and a mysterious end buyer who’s perpetuating the market. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop.  Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:03.0

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0:21.3

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0:25.0

This is a high risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong.

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1:09.0

They're all different, you know, some when you catch them, they throw their hands up and you got them. But it is kind of, you know, an eerie feeling when you're out here by yourself and you're dealing with four or five guys and you know three or four of them's carried machetes because that's a common tool to trade the machetes.

1:20.0

You got to be careful. I mean it's not a game. You got to be on your p's and

1:23.8

cues and you know no situation's the same. So you got to expect done expected.

1:28.8

Brandon Dean is an officer with the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, the state nature cops.

1:35.2

Dean patrols the Green Swamp, more than 17,000 acres of savannah and swamp land in the southeastern most

1:42.1

corner of the state.

1:43.4

It's known mostly for its bird watching and longleaf pines,

1:46.9

but it's also ground zero for an obscure black market,

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