Introducing: Wolves Among Us, Season 1, The Larry Lavin Story
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🗓️ 26 September 2022
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Summary
On the surface, there was nothing remarkable about Larry Lavin. He lived in a quiet neighborhood with his wife and family, drove a Volvo, and practiced dentistry in Philadelphia. But, from 1978 to 1984, Dr. Lavin ran one of the largest cocaine enterprises on the entire eastern seaboard.
Through the voices and perspectives of law enforcement, drug runners, friends, business associates and Larry Lavin himself, Wolves Among Us, Season One, The Larry Lavin Story, tells the story of Lavin’s dual life, his impact on Philadelphia culture in the late 70s and early 80s, and the stunning events that led to his capture.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi true crime daily listeners. This is Anna. I am excited to share an extended preview of wolves |
| 0:06.4 | among us. It's a gripping new true crime anthology series from C-13 originals. The Peabody nominated |
| 0:14.0 | team behind shows like Gon South, Gangster Capitalism, Fallen Angel, and The Sunshine Place. It tells |
| 0:21.2 | the stories of community pillars, soccer moms and PTA dads who seemingly perfect lives were merely |
| 0:28.9 | an illusion. On the surface, there was nothing remarkable about Larry Lavon. He lived in a quiet |
| 0:35.2 | neighborhood with his wife and family drove a Volvo and practiced dentistry. However, from 1978 |
| 0:42.0 | to 1984, he ran one of the largest cocaine enterprises on the entire eastern seaboard, |
| 0:48.8 | distributing hundreds of pounds of coke every month and earning nearly $200 million. His empire |
| 0:56.8 | spanned two continents, three countries, 14 states, all of this during Reagan's war on drugs. |
| 1:04.9 | Through the voices and the perspectives of law enforcement, drug runners, friends, business |
| 1:10.3 | associates, and Larry Lavon himself, season one of wolves among us explores Lavon's dual life, |
| 1:17.2 | his impact on Philadelphia culture in the 70s and the 80s, and the stunning events that ultimately |
| 1:24.5 | led to his capture. You can find wolves among us now on the Odyssey app or wherever you listen to |
| 1:32.3 | your podcast. Larry Lavon, as I know him, was a dentist who really was talented at what he did. |
| 1:43.8 | They liked him, his patients, his staff. He's the kind of person that you meet and you just can't |
| 1:49.1 | how beloved. Bright and very smart, good looking, articulate, nice guy really. A regular good kid |
| 1:57.1 | like he could have looked at him and said, what the fuck's he doing in business, you know what I mean? |
| 2:04.3 | A Philadelphia dentist today was sentenced to 22 years in prison and fined $100,000. |
| 2:09.5 | This was just unbelievable. The size and breadth of the operation was crazy. |
| 2:15.2 | Dentist Lawrence Levin treated guilty to running a $5 million a month cocaine ring that catered |
| 2:21.7 | to lawyers, stock brokers, and other professionals. You can understand the genius in Larry, nobody |
| 2:26.6 | was done coke at this point. He was smart enough to realize that that's where the drug industry was going. |
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