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Dropping Like Flies
Episode #5
2014-04-24 14:28:23
Every year for the past few years, tens of thousand of flytraps have gone missing — from the wild, from gardens, from nurseries. And, really, nobody knows where they go. What’s cropped up in rural North Carolina is essentially a Venus Flytrap crime ring — with lackeys, middlemen, and a mysterious end buyer who’s perpetuating the market.