The Greatest Scam Ever Written | 5. The Runner

The Binge Cases: Baby Broker

Sony Music

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.1 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

U.S. Postal Inspector Clayton Gerber discovers that the letters are entering the country via Albany, NY, and that they’re originating from a company in Montreal. Locating criminals across the border for extradition is no simple task, but eventually Clayton finds two of the scam’s top lieutenants. Can he get them to give up the name of their boss, the true mastermind of the scheme? Unlock all episodes of The Greatest Scam Ever Written, ad-free, right now by subscribing to The Binge. Plus, get binge access to brand new stories dropping on the first of every month thats all episodes, all at once, all ad-free. Just click Subscribe on the top of the Smoke Screen show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. An ITN Productions & Sony Music Entertainment production. Find out more about The Binge and other podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	My name is Payne-Linsie and I host a true-crime podcast called Up and Vanished. My new season has taken me to the remote town of Nome, Alaska, where two people have gone missing.
0:11.0	We came back without my son.
0:13.4	I want you to find him.
0:15.0	I know he's murdered.
0:16.2	I know he is.
0:17.2	High pain.
0:18.2	Would you like to solve a murder?
0:20.8	I'm scared.
0:21.8	Up and Vanish season 4 is available now.
0:25.0	Listen for free on Apple Podcasts. The bench.
0:37.0	A December morning in 2018, in a police station on the idyllic Spanish island of Abitha, a phone rings.
0:46.4	The officer on duty picks it up and is immediately greeted with the sound of a woman speaking
0:50.9	Spanish in a frantic pleading voice.
0:55.0	He tells her to slow down and explain exactly what's happened.
0:59.8	She chokes out that her ex-husband has their young son.
1:03.4	They're meant to call home every day, but today they haven't.
1:07.3	And now she has no idea where her son is.
1:11.7	The officer asks for the ex-husband's name and concentrates as she spells it out in English.
1:19.0	He hits the return button on his computer, listens to the woman's ragged breath as the page loads.
1:26.9	When it does, the officer sits bolt upright.
1:31.2	Not only is this man showing up in their system, it appears there's a warrant out for his extradition,
1:37.0	courtesy of the US government.
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