USC's Drug Peddling Dean

Campus Files

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Society & Culture, History, True Crime, Documentary

4.6 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In 2016, a woman overdosed on meth in a Pasadena hotel room. The man who provided the drugs: Dr. Carmen Puliafito, the dean of USC’s Keck School of Medicine. As one reporter at the Los Angeles Times fought to expose the truth, he encountered a power structure that made publishing the story all but impossible.Read Paul's book about this story: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250824103/badcity/ For a transcript of this episode: https://bit.ly/campusfiles-transcripts To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Exclusively on Disney Plus.
0:02.1	I'm Rebecca. I'm Josephine's mom.
0:03.8	I'm Elisa.
0:04.6	Can I go over to Josie's house to play?
0:06.4	She met a new friend and puff.
0:07.9	She's gone.
0:09.0	An ordinary play date.
0:10.5	The missing child is Lucia Blix.
0:12.4	Nine years old.
0:13.4	Is about to become every parent's nightmare.
0:16.3	The people who took Lucia plund it meticulously.
0:19.9	She's hiding something, I know it.
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0:34.6	It was a cool mid-60s day in Pasadena, California, March 4th, 2016.
0:42.5	The afternoon was quiet at the historic Hotel Constance, a nearly century-old landmark on Colorado
0:49.9	Boulevard.
0:51.7	For Devon, the manager on duty, everything seemed routine.
0:57.3	Then, a call from housekeeping.
1:00.1	They needed him in room 304, immediately.
1:04.0	The room was registered to a man named Carmen.
1:08.1	Inside, a woman was unconscious.
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