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Bad Blood: The Final Chapter

Episode 4: Guilty Conscience

Bad Blood: The Final Chapter

Sony Music

Society & Culture, News, True Crime

4.74.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

A note Elizabeth Holmes wrote to herself one night in late October 2014 suggests she knew she was committing fraud. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

One evening, three years ago, Reed Catherine was working late at his office in Berkeley

0:11.8

when he came across something kind of strange.

0:15.3

This does look like she's talking to herself, which is interesting because I don't know

0:20.9

how many people talk to themselves and notes like this.

0:26.5

It was an email that Elizabeth Holmes seemed to have written to herself and what was

0:33.3

in that email?

0:35.3

Well, to write that, I think you'd have to conclude a guilty mind.

0:41.3

A guilty mind, that's an important concept in criminal trials.

0:47.4

And now that Elizabeth Holmes' trial is underway, it's up to a jury to decide if she had

0:52.8

one.

0:54.5

This is a racially diverse jury of seven men and five women who've been selected because

0:59.2

they haven't read my book or been exposed to the onslaught of media coverage this story

1:03.8

has spawned.

1:05.5

For more than three months, they'll be sitting in a cramped courtroom just a few arm lengths

1:10.1

away from Elizabeth.

1:12.0

And they'll hear hours and hours of testimony about how she was allegedly abused by

1:17.1

Sonny, about the claims she made to investors, about the patients who used her blood tests,

1:23.4

and they'll have to decide.

1:25.6

Did Elizabeth intend to commit fraud?

1:29.7

Because for all the outrage she stoked, her alleged crimes have yet to be proven in a court

1:35.4

of law.

1:39.7

Read is a civil lawyer.

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