Ride the Snake: The Cobra Venom Con
Ridiculous Crime
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Rick Deitsch was a business man with a big big plan — he wanted to make Big Snake. He would use science to milk Wall Street of millions by scamming biotech and pharma investors with the hype for novel new medicines his lab created based on… cobra venom! Unsurprisingly, this modern day snake oil salesman’s grift was not a successsssss…
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| 0:00.0 | A new podcast from The Creators of Up and Vanished. |
| 0:05.3 | Louisville police are searching for a missing 24-year-old woman. |
| 0:09.5 | When I read about Alana Chen's disappearance, I couldn't look away. |
| 0:14.0 | A shy girl from Boulder, who wanted to be a nun since she was a teenager. |
| 0:19.0 | So Alana was like sneaking out to go to church? |
| 0:22.0 | But she kept a secret, one that was slowly tearing her apart. |
| 0:26.0 | I didn't know she was attracted to girls, no, she didn't tell me. |
| 0:29.5 | Yes, some other says her daughter first opened up to a priest at her church |
| 0:33.0 | when she was just 14 years old. |
| 0:35.0 | However, the church denies any conversions therapy was done. |
| 0:38.0 | She didn't tell me, she told me. |
| 0:40.0 | I have. |
| 0:41.0 | She confessed to him. |
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