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🗓️ 10 September 2020
⏱️ 9 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey everyone, this is Tara. We're so excited to bring you season two of broken seeking justice. |
0:05.9 | It comes out next week, September 16th. In the meantime, I wanted to tell you about a new |
0:11.2 | documentary podcast called Smoke Screen Fake Priest from NeonHum Media. Hosted by Alex Schumann, |
0:18.1 | a news reporter from the Midwest, he's been chasing Father Ryan's story for years. |
0:23.8 | Smoke Screen Fake Priest is an investigative show about Ryan Scott, |
0:28.1 | also known as Randall Stocks, also known as Ryan Gevlinger, and also known by seven other names. |
0:35.0 | He was a popular priest who spent the last 30 years traveling the Midwest, |
0:38.8 | swindling millions of dollars out of people where he used the money to enrich himself, |
0:43.3 | spend away, and declare bankruptcy whenever outed for falsifying his identity. |
0:49.2 | Father Ryan is a con man, accused of several crimes over the course of many years. |
0:54.4 | Only once though did law enforcement officially charge him with crimes related to his church, |
1:00.0 | but he managed to essentially win the case. He's now free and working on his next con. |
1:06.0 | Here's a clip from the show. I have this photo of Father Ryan when he was still young. |
1:11.8 | He's wearing tight wranglers with snake skin boots and a black tank top. His hair looks blow-dried back. |
1:19.2 | There's a bullet belt wrapped around his waist, and his expression is so confident. |
1:26.0 | He looks like a 70s porn star. |
1:29.9 | On the one hand, this photo was funny. It steeped in such a specific time, |
1:35.1 | but I also get this dark feeling when I look at it, like I'm looking at two completely different people. |
1:42.4 | And maybe I am. |
1:46.2 | You see, in this photo, Father Ryan is tan and smiling, |
1:51.5 | but down the line, his life couldn't look more different. He trade out disco clothes for a robe, |
1:58.4 | meet a priest who'd be murdered, and another who would die suspiciously. |
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