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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Playing Dirty Sports Scandals. I'm Jay Harris,

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Speaker 1: your host and barista magnifique when it comes to stirring

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Speaker 1: up and spilling out the scandalous sports stories you grave.

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Speaker 1: Over the past twenty years my career as a journalist

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Speaker 1: and sportscaster, I have hosted ESPN shows from Sports Center

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Speaker 1: to Outside the Lines. But on Playing Dirty, I am

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Speaker 1: all about the juice. Today's tale on Tap picks up

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Speaker 1: where we left off last week, smack in the middle

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Speaker 1: of a very dark, murky period in the nineteen eighties

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Speaker 1: when elite equestrians were hiring Tommy the Sandman Burns to

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Speaker 1: murder their horses for insurance payouts. Nothing about that heartless

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Speaker 1: criminal enterprise sits well. So before we find out how

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Speaker 1: this scandal snowballed, I vote we clear our palettes. Okay,

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Speaker 1: now we're hydrated, embraced for the horror, because unfortunately, this

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Speaker 1: story only gets darker. In the aftermath of Tommy Burns's

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Speaker 1: arrest on February second, nineteen ninety one for his role

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Speaker 1: in the killing of the horse street Wise, he rang

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Speaker 1: all his high and mighty elite friends from jail, expecting help,

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Speaker 1: but no one picked up his calls ouch. Tommy now

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Speaker 1: was only too happy to listen to what their new

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Speaker 1: vitriolic informant had to say. The ghastly secrets of the

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Speaker 1: equestrian world rolled off Tommy Burns's tongue as he disclosed

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Speaker 1: shocking allegations such as George Lindemann, the billionaire CEO of

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Speaker 1: Southern Union, paying him twenty five thousand dollars to have

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Speaker 1: his horse Charisma eliminated, and Paul Valliere, the owner of

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Speaker 1: Acres Wild Farm in Island, leaving payment under a golf

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Speaker 1: cart's cushioned seat for Tommy to collect after the electrocution

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Speaker 1: of show horse rosseau Platier. I feel terrible about what

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Speaker 1: I did, Tommy Burns insisted to the authorities after he'd

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Speaker 1: been caught and abandoned by those who contracted his services.

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Speaker 1: But I did not advertise, he continued, I did not

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Speaker 1: do any sales calls. People found me and came to me,

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Speaker 1: very important people, very wealthy people. Tommy Burns's revelations were nauseating,

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Speaker 1: but invaluable to the FBI for his cooperation, which led

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Speaker 1: variety of charges. Tommy Burns was sentenced to a mere

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Speaker 1: year and one day in prison, of which he served

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Speaker 1: only six months in a county jail. Since his release,

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Speaker 1: Tommy has seemingly turned his life around, becoming a successful

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Speaker 1: his own horse farm in Florida. But Tommy's spade of

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Speaker 1: their deaths is sadly just one of the many dark

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Speaker 1: doings in the annals of high society equestrianism. Because even

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Speaker 1: as he was creeping into stables across the country, there

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Speaker 1: was an interconnected, equally disturbing figure on the loose, Richard Bailey.

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Speaker 1: Unlike Tommy, Richard didn't target horses. He targeted women, rich women.

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Speaker 1: Known in the circles of Chicago's elite as a charming

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Speaker 1: con man akin to Dirty John, Richard Bailey's name became

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Speaker 1: synonymous with manipulation and deceit on the equestrian circuit. His

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Speaker 1: targeting women who had come into significant wealth through inheritance

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Speaker 1: some of you may have clocked, Frank Brock was none

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Speaker 1: Sweet After a whirlwind romance, Helen and Frank were married

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Speaker 1: Dubbed affectionately by the public as the Candy Lady. Helen

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Speaker 1: As Winston Churchill once observantly equipped, there was some thing

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Speaker 1: You remember how I described his ideal mark right wealthy

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Speaker 1: to and that she discovered horses were being killed for

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Speaker 1: insurance payouts, what we can say is this, given her

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Speaker 1: you can imagine that Helen wasn't just another wealthy mark

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Speaker 1: is most likely to have happened on February seventeenth, nineteen

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Speaker 1: From Helen's standpoint, it might have seemed a day like

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Speaker 1: that she had given her riding lessons and once sold

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Speaker 1: her a gray horse. Cathy also said that she'd been

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Speaker 1: so he wasn't exactly an upstanding guy. But Joseph was affable,

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Speaker 1: and the court ate up his account of a lunch

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Speaker 1: he shared in February nineteen seventy seven with Richard Bailey

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Speaker 1: in trouble. Joseph Plemmons testified, and he looked at me

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Speaker 1: he was in trouble that he thought that she was

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Speaker 1: the heat, and he wanted to know if Kenneth and

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Speaker 1: three dirty horse dealers, helen Brock disappeared. Joseph Plemman's testimony

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Speaker 1: was the government's most direct evidence that Richard Bailey had

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Speaker 1: solicited it at Helen Brock's murder. US attorney Stephen Miller

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Speaker 1: succinctly captured what Joseph Pleman's words had conveyed. Richard's motive

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Speaker 1: he denied any wrongdoing towards Helen Brock. When questioned about

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Speaker 1: specific dates and events, his testimony was marred by inconsistencies,

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Speaker 1: to extreme lengths to maintain his own fraudulent, excessive lifestyle.

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Speaker 1: While the prosecution's witnesses had certainly not all been slam dunks, Ultimately,

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Speaker 1: Judge Milton Shadour determined that it was more probable than

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Speaker 1: not that Richard Bailey did commit the offenses of conspiring

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Speaker 1: Richard Bailey had shown remorse for his actions, Judge Shadour

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Speaker 1: said he would have been content to punish him with

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Speaker 1: was ultimately sentenced to thirty years in prison. It may

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Speaker 1: sixty seven year old Richard Bailey. Bailey was finally released

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Speaker 1: from a federal prison in Florida a few years earlier

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Speaker 1: than his full sentence, in July twenty nineteen, at the

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Speaker 1: age of eighty nine. He died in twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 1: Helen Brock's body has still to this day never been found,

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Speaker 1: but the investigation into her disappearance and presumed murder ultimately

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Speaker 1: resulted in a total of thirty three convictions against Richard

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Speaker 1: Bailey and his associates on a range of charges including fraud, arson,

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Speaker 1: and obstruction of justice. The equestrian world's dirty players had

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Speaker 1: been fully exposed at last, and in a roundabout way,

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Speaker 1: it was Helen Brock who had put an end to

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Speaker 1: the terrible horse murders for insurance money scandal. It might

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Speaker 1: have pleased animal lover Helen to know that her presumed

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Speaker 1: murder was at least the impetus for the subsequent life

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Speaker 1: saving investigation that shut down Tommy the Sandman Burns Richard

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Speaker 1: Bailey in all their crooked cronies for good. To close

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Speaker 1: today's scandal, which ended with justice that came at a

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Speaker 1: After all, we must drink something sweet in honor of

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Speaker 1: the Sweet Candy Ladies memory, Helen Brock. Here's to you

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Speaker 1: and your enduring legacy of animal welfare and philanthropy. Join me,

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