Fraud Friday: The Con with the “Cure” for Cancer w/ Caleb Hearon

Comedian Caleb Hearon (Jurassic World Dominion) returns to discuss Norman Baker, a vaudevillian, business-owner, and radio-show host in the 1800’s who claimed to have a cure for cancer. Plus, a Hong Kong student has been arrested after participating in an elaborate kidnapping to scam her parents out of ransom money. Stay schemin’! (Originally Released 10/24/2022)

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Research by Kaelyn Brandt.

SOURCES:

https://www.scmp.com/yp/discover/news/hong-kong/article/3194630/student-arrested-hong-kong-role-fake-kidnapping-scam

https://fsuspecialcollections.wordpress.com/2022/06/01/norman-baker-and-the-naked-truth/

https://historycollection.com/norman-baker-man-claimed-cure-cancer/

https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/norman-baker-4885/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/charlatan-ozarks-still-looms-over-haunted-crescent-hotel-180973743/

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