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

  • Jan 3 2025
  • Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
  • Podcast

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

  • Summary

  • 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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