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🗓️ 12 August 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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In Part 2, Darlene Asher, as the head of her local dart league, has been leading the charge to help Jeremiah Jon Smith, who they believe is dying from cancer. But when Jeremiah’s wife leaves him, she shares her doubts with Darlene about his illness. A police investigation reveals the devastating truth: Jeremiah has been faking his cancer and exploiting his friends' generosity in order to line his pockets.
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0:00.0 | This week on The Perfect Scam. |
0:03.0 | He'd say he's going to the doctor, she'd say, |
0:06.0 | can I come with and he'd say, no, I don't want you there, |
0:09.0 | I don't want you to hear what they have to say. |
0:11.0 | Just little things like that were like something doesn't seem right. |
0:19.3 | Welcome back to the perfect scam. I'm your host Bob Sullivan. Last week we spoke with |
0:24.8 | Darlene Asher of Minnesota, Queen of a Local Dart League. Her big heart swung |
0:30.9 | into action when Local dart legend, Jeremiah John Smith, told everyone he was dying of cancer. |
0:38.0 | The young father had a baby and his new bride Amanda was struggling to deal with the infant, their other children, and a husband who was barely able to get off the couch. |
0:48.0 | Darlene rallied the Dart Club to help Jeremiah. |
0:51.0 | Members paid for the young couple's wedding, donated to a go-fund-mee page, held |
0:56.2 | a big fundraiser at a local pub. And that's where we left the story last week. At the event, Jeremiah's exhausted wife confides in |
1:05.5 | Darlene about just how hard things are. And some of the things she says are |
1:11.5 | confusing. |
1:13.2 | Jeremiah isn't taking traditional cancer medicines, for example. |
1:18.2 | That's what Amanda told Darlene. |
1:21.2 | I kept saying, well, what are they doing for him? |
1:23.4 | What are they doing to make him comfortable? |
1:25.5 | And she said they're not doing anything because it's not curable. |
1:31.6 | And Jeremiah was smoking marijuana for the pain so there was no pain pills per se involved. |
1:40.3 | It seems almost sacrilegious to question someone's pain treatment during cancer, |
1:45.0 | especially terminal cancer, but, well, Darlene is asking questions. |
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