The Flim-Flam Man: The Disappearance of Jamie Laiaddee
My Life of Crime with Erin Moriarty
CBS News
4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In March of 2010, 34-year-old Jamie Laiaddee goes missing from a Phoenix, Arizona suburb. Ten weeks pass before anyone begins to worry. Investigators zero in on her boyfriend, Bryan Stewart, who, as it turns out, doesn’t exist. Who is Bryan Stewart, really? And can the police trust his story, that he helped Jamie disappear? Bryan claims that Jamie is alive and doesn’t want to be found, but detectives have their own theories about what really happened to her. Based on the 48 Hours investigation, “The Stranger Beside Me”.
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| 0:00.0 | Wondry Plus subscribers can listen to my life of crime with Aaron Moriarty at Free right now. |
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| 0:10.0 | Many put their hope in Dr. Serhut. His company was worth half a billion dollars. |
| 0:15.0 | His research promised groundbreaking treatments for HIV and cancer. |
| 0:19.0 | But the brilliant doctor was hiding a secret. |
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| 0:30.0 | This is a wonderful, bubbly, confident, independent woman and she's missing. |
| 0:39.0 | How can one of my best friends have been missing for 10 weeks? |
| 0:45.0 | How did it come to this that she could be gone so long and nobody reported it? |
| 0:49.0 | I couldn't believe that it had been that long. |
| 0:51.0 | That nobody had noticed. It was absolute craziness. |
| 0:56.0 | When Jamie Leia de-disappeared in March of 2010, it took weeks for the people who knew her best to realize she was missing. |
| 1:04.0 | Because the fact is, Jamie had been slipping away from their lives for nearly two years. |
| 1:11.0 | If your friend stops making an effort, you kind of stop too. |
| 1:14.0 | But I never thought Jamie would have been the one to stop making an effort, but I just let it go. |
| 1:19.0 | But when you hear what happened to Jamie, you may want to take a closer look at your own friends. |
| 1:26.0 | I'm Erin Moriarty, 48 hours and this is my life of crime. |
| 1:33.0 | For those of us who listen to true crime podcasts, we often think bad things happen to other people, not us. |
| 1:41.0 | So no one really worried about Jamie, not at first anyway. |
| 1:46.0 | She was a good friend. We were a support network for each other. |
| 1:50.0 | When it's Newman met Jamie when they were both attending the University of Michigan. |
| 1:54.0 | It was a tough, rigorous education and it created a deep bond between classmates. |
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