Escape from Argentina - 20

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

🗓️ 15 December 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Lucy Wright has her entire life pulled out from under her when her boyfriend of five years leaves. She turns to cocaine to ease her pain. Addicted, and desperate, she takes a job smuggling cocaine from Argentina to the UK. When things go completely awry, Lucy ends up a fugitive running from the law in Buenos Aires.

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0:00.0	I've got got two suitcases, stuff
0:08.2	I've got two suitcases,
0:10.1	stuff full of cocaine.
0:29.0	I felt sick to my stomach. I was wanted and was a fugitive. I've got to get out. Oh God. What have I done? It's me, The Grinch. My new podcast Tis The Grinch Holiday Talk Show is out now, and it's already been voted best
0:37.8	podcast of all time by the residents of Whomville.
0:41.2	So tune in and turn up the volume for a hilariously bad time.
0:45.0	Listen to Tis the Grinch Holiday Talk Show on the Wundery app or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:50.0	From Wundry, this is locked up abroad. I'm your host Jim Clemente.
0:57.0	In escape from Argentina, Lucy Wright is having a very good life in London.
1:01.0	Out of the blue, her boyfriend tells her he's leaving.
1:04.0	The shock takes her back to the trauma of her father dying when she was seven years old,
1:08.5	unable to focus on her studies or anything else in her life.
1:12.0	Turning to drugs to help ease the pain, she becomes addicted to crack cocaine.
1:16.0	Spiraling completely out of control, deep in debt, she agrees to smuggle cocaine from Argentina back into the UK.
1:23.9	When things go completely awry, Lucy ends up a fugitive running from the law in Buenos Aires. I was 23
1:36.0	23 years old.
1:39.0	I was living with my boyfriend.
1:42.0	We'd been together five years.
1:48.7	That probably was the first time
1:50.4	that I'd really felt happy.
2:00.8	I was loved. I was studying at Great Orange Street Hospital for a pediatric nursing degree.
2:05.0	Ah, you're drawing a picture.
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