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The Knife: A True Crime Podcast

Off Record: The Promise of a Cure

The Knife: A True Crime Podcast

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

True Crime

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Patia tells Hannah a story about a woman named Antonella Carpenter who charged thousands for a laser treatment she claimed was 100-percent effective in killing cancerous tumors. But in 2010, a federal investigation exposed a million-dollar fraud. 

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0:00.0

This is exactly right.

0:06.0

This story contains adult content and language.

0:09.4

Listener discretion is advised.

0:11.9

The claims and opinions in this podcast are those of the speaker

0:14.5

and do not necessarily represent the knife or exactly right media.

0:20.2

Music or exactly right media.

0:41.0

Welcome to the knife off record. I'm Hannah Smith. I'm Pasha Eaton. And today, Hannah, I have a story for you.

0:55.1

I can't wait to hear it. Yeah, it's actually a story that we had talked about briefly a couple of months ago, but I couldn't find, you know, I made a bunch of phone calls and didn't find the right person to speak with about it, but wanted to tell you what I found out. Okay, great. So it's July of 2008, and we're in North Little Rock, Arkansas. It's

1:01.8

characteristically hot and muggy outside, and accompanied by her husband, a woman named

1:07.2

Cindy Bebeca walks into Lays Med Inc.

1:11.8

Okay.

1:12.4

Cindy is there for cancer treatment.

1:14.6

Cindy has breast cancer, and she's traveled all the way from her home in Powder

1:18.7

Springs, Georgia to North Little Rock for an appointment with Dr. Antonella Carpenter.

1:24.4

Okay.

1:25.3

And Dr. Antonola Carpenter has promised to cure Cindy's cancer.

1:30.2

So, yeah, when I hear someone's traveling across state lines, like my mind first goes to

1:35.5

to see a specialist or someone who is, you know, particularly good at treating your type of cancer.

1:41.5

Is that the situation?

1:43.1

It is the situation that Dr. Antonola Carpenter has

1:46.3

promised to cure her cancer, but no, she is not a specialist, and she is not a medical doctor.

1:52.0

She's going by doctor. She's going by a doctor. So Dr. Antonololo Carpenter, as she calls herself,

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