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The Binge Cases: U R NEXT

Fake Priest | 5. Meet The Browns

The Binge Cases: U R NEXT

Sony Music

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.04.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

A sheriff deputy arrests Father Ryan for taking more than $70,000 from an elderly follower. It's looking like he might get 7 years in prison, but then he meets a father-daughter pair of private investigators who change everything. A Neon Hum Media and Sony Music Entertainment production. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts to binge all episodes now or listen weekly wherever you get your podcasts. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

So this is some of the stuff from the church. This is John Brown. We're in a small

0:06.4

warehouse in Missouri. He's given me the Grand Tour. These two barrels contain all of his books.

0:15.0

Everything John was showing me used to be inside Father Ryan's Church.

0:20.0

There are Bibles, credit cards that used to belong to former followers, and Bens filled with religious

0:26.8

outfits.

0:27.8

You see this jewelry?

0:30.8

And you see all these gold buttons?

0:33.4

Yeah.

0:34.4

Those are listed as stolen items that he stole from Sheila Anderson.

0:40.3

We met Sheila last episode.

0:42.4

She used to be one of Father Ryan's nuns.

0:45.0

But after years, she left the Abbey and sued him for money he'd taken from her.

0:50.0

He refused to return a lot of her personal things too.

0:54.7

And here they were.

0:56.8

I have all their diaries, all their notes, all their files.

1:01.6

This tour is another moment from the past year where I almost can't believe what's happening.

1:07.2

I went to this warehouse in March 2019.

1:11.0

By then, I had been investigating Father Ryan for about a year.

1:16.0

We emailed back and forth, but he still didn't want to do an interview.

1:20.9

But I kept going.

1:22.0

I wanted to figure out why he did this. And if he defrauded followers, find

1:26.8

out why he was still free. I had had such high hopes when I started reporting.

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