The morning I spent there, a pregnant woman told him she did not want the baby's grandfather at the hospital when she gave birth. And they can tell, so they confess things. I don't know how else to say this, but he cares about his patients, really cares. What I hadn't understood is that Benjamin is the same kind of doctor Vince was. When Benjamin first told me that he identified with Vince Gilmer, felt connected to him, I didn't really get it until I went there to the Cane Creek Clinic and hung around and watched Benjamin with his patients. The first was that his predecessor at the position- who was the guy who started the clinic- had left the job after murdering his own father, strangling him and sawing off his fingers. But there were two slightly strange things about this job. And there was this one job that he was really excited about at a small rural clinic in North Carolina, a place called Cane Creek, about 15 miles outside of Asheville. She did this before Serial, but you'll hear she's in here solving a mystery in a very Serial-like way.īenjamin Gilmer was finishing his training to be a doctor and he was applying for jobs.

So what we've going to do this hour is play the original story, then we have an update for you towards the end.Īs you'll hear, the reporter is Sarah Koenig, host of Serial. Because just this week, after many, many years, there's news. But we're going to air it again right now.

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