Fake Priest | 5. Meet The Browns
The Binge Cases: U R NEXT
Sony Music
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🗓️ 10 September 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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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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