The Greatest Scam Ever Written | 7. Call Me Blade

The Binge Cases: Baby Broker

Sony Music

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.1 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Our host writes a handwritten letter to the mastermind behind the Duval letters in 2023. He’s impressed and reaches out. He’s never spoken to a journalist before. They start exchanging emails and calls. Eventually she visits him behind bars. Soon, a jury will decide his fate. What will he reveal to her? And how can Rachel be sure it’s the truth? 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	In 1992, something Erie was going on at the VA hospital in Columbia, Missouri.
0:06.0	More patients than usual are dying.
0:09.0	They're dying on the same wing, often on the night shift.
0:12.0	Is this coincidence or something far darker?
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0:26.0	or listen weekly wherever you get your podcast. Right from the very first time Patrice Runner called me, I knew I had to handle the relationship delicately.
0:44.2	If you remember, I had sent off my handwritten letter to him back in February 2022,
0:50.2	and I kind of assumed I'd hear nothing back.
0:52.8	After all, this man was sitting in prison in Brooklyn,
0:57.4	accused of running a serious criminal enterprise,
1:00.9	a massive scam that tricked millions of Americans.
1:05.0	He had never spoken to a journalist before,
1:08.0	and now, awaiting trial, would not be a sensible time to start.
1:13.0	So I'm surprised when I see an American area code pop up on my phone.
1:18.0	I think there's no way.
1:20.0	This call is from a federal prison.
1:23.0	It is Patrice, and he launches straight into a long spiel about how my handwritten letter had intrigued him.
1:31.0	I got to later yesterday.
1:34.0	But I expected it was intrigued by the fact that it was handwritten.
1:40.0	The criminal mastermind running the Maria Duval scam is actually calling me.
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