Bogota Belly Bust - 17

Locked Up Abroad

Wondery

Drugsmuggling, Oliver Stone, Society & Culture, Prison, Overseas, Jim Clemente, Locked, National Geographic, Billy Hayes, Abroad, Exhibit C, Smuggling, Drugs, Vacation, Midnight Express, Crime, Riveting

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Tabitha Richie is juggling her last year of college and being a single mother. She lets loose one night, and tries cocaine. She’s soon addicted and a shadow of her former self. She’s desperate to change, and accepts an offer from friends to stay in Bogota and get clean. She’s soon betrayed by the friends she thought she knew so well.

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0:00.0	I really needed a vacation.
0:07.0	I wanted to get as far away as possible from the life I was leading.
0:13.3	Welcome to Colombia!
0:15.3	I felt free for the first time and so long.
0:19.9	I wasn't looking for a romance, but I was open to it. I trusted him but that was a complete
0:25.9	mistake.
0:26.9	If you decide you don't want to carry the drugs you're never going home. That was just the beginning of my nightmare.
0:35.0	I'm in the situation and I can't get out of it.
0:39.0	We are watching you.
0:41.0	I knew deep down it wasn't going to work.
0:46.0	I just wouldn't survive being here.
0:48.8	If I was fast enough I could get to the top of the roof
0:51.4	and jump.
0:56.0	It's me, the Grinch. My new podcast, Tis the Grinch holiday talk show is out now.
1:01.0	And it's already been voted best podcast of all time by the residents of
1:05.2	Whoville. So tune in and turn up the volume for a hilariously bad time.
1:09.7	Listen to Tis the Grinch Holiday Talk Show on the Wundery app or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:14.1	From Wundere, this is locked up abroad.
1:20.0	I'm your host Jim Clemente.
1:22.0	Bogota belly bust is the story of Tabitha Ritchie.
1:25.0	In 2011, in Ontario, Canada,
1:28.0	Tabithas in her last year at the university,
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