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El Salvador join me and Justin from Generation Y as we look into the mysterious death of cryptocurrency
millionaire Gerald cotton this is true crime garage [Music] foreign [Music] I'm doing well
how are you well I'm doing okay but it's a Red Bull and Ritalin type of day I'm struggling a little
old R and R yes well this individual that we're going to talk about he probably took some Ritalin I'm sure he
did tonight's case is an interesting one would you call it a mysterious death yes or maybe a unexplained death we're
talking about the Unexplained death of Gerald cotton who otherwise goes by uh Gary
and he was running one of the or the largest crypto Exchange in Canada when somebody like that passes away it's not
that big of a deal but he was very young at the time so that's where some questions come in among others yes he
ran a crypto exchange called quadriga CX sounds like something from Star Trek yeah and for anyone that doesn't know
what that is I would say think of a stock exchange you know any kind of exchange where you can buy and sell some
type of good uh but because it's crypto people kind of their brain shuts off and
they don't quite understand what cryptocurrencies are I think of them as stocks but you could actually use them
to buy things too but do you have a better explanation Captain well his his business was a little different than
most because it seemed like I could go onto their website and take a hundred dollars American
dollars and buy a hundred dollars worth of crypto but it was not actually crypto
in this case for his company I could be getting this wrong but it seems to me like it was a IOU for crypto and and
that's not exactly out of the ordinary a lot of crypto exchanges might not be able to fill your order immediately
right so they will have these little tags of ious whatever you want to call them and fulfill them over the next few
days because they might not be able to do it immediately yeah but what's interesting about his model was that
their company charged you to make the transaction so once you bought the hundred dollars and whoever sold you the
hundred dollars both had to pay a fee so it wasn't just like some scam business the the company was making millions just
upon transactions and he had a pretty normal life growing up and he would end up going to school for business
administration at uh York University School of Business his parents were antique dealers he was just a very
normal nerdy guy before he started dabbling in cryptocurrencies right he had a few business ventures before
quadriga which we'll talk about later quadrica was as I said it it was a crypto exchange but in order
to become the largest crypto Exchange in Canada you have to legitimize yourself you have
to look like you are the real deal and he created this from the ground up with his business partner Michael Patron they
established a board of directors they had a small office at one point there's another way to make yourself look legit
and that's by creating fake user accounts to show that people are using your service and I know some podcasters will
purchase you know reviews or followers for themselves to make themselves appear a little bit more legitimized and I
personally don't care somebody does that but when it comes to a Exchange it might be a little disingenuous well
it goes back to a couple things in one if you want to know what which podcast we're talking about we're going to
reveal those in a second no we're not going to do that but if you go to iTunes and you see somebody's reviews that say
this podcast is nice and then the next one is nice podcast this podcast is neat like chances are those are fake reviews
that the podcast bought also we see it all the time where people buy followers on Instagram Facebook or whatever
now this practice that they're using is similar to what dating websites would use so they would get these fake
accounts 10 attractive females 10 attractive males and they would have these fake accounts going all the time
so it seemed like there was a bunch of people using their site like Justin says maybe that's okay and maybe you don't
frown upon on that too much on a dating site especially if it's free but on a cryptocurrency website where they're
charging you per transaction to me that seems a little shady up front I I agree uh because if you are legit then you
know maybe you can go out on Yelp or Google reviews and give yourself some good reviews but
some of these fake accounts were like R2D2 or Mickey Mouse I mean it was blatant that they weren't real that's a
that's a true crime garage's number one fan R2D2 he's partnered up with this Michael
guy and things are going pretty well when they first started out they were actually a like
over-the-counter exchange kind of like an ATM where you sh where you could like put your money in own some Bitcoin or
whatever cryptocurrency and then you could withdraw money but that didn't really take off so they
took this whole thing online which is the normal thing to do with cryptocurrencies that all happened they
established the company in 2013 and by 2014 it was reported that they were doing like
7.9 million dollars in exchanges a day and by 2017 they were doing over a billion dollars in transfers and
exchanges a day wow and like I said there are charging they are charging their users for every transaction and it
might be just fractions of pennies but still that adds up if I hadn't mentioned it Captain he's running this entire
thing from oh yeah MacBook Pro when you hear this it seems so made up and when you start thinking of the idea
of like a Ponzi scheme or something like that to me a company that is doing transactions like you said billions of
dollars I'm expecting them to have a campus somewhere multiple buildings tons of
employees once you find out that Gary is running the whole operation on his MacBook is it was it even a MacBook Pro
I've read it both ways I don't think it really matters though I know that to me it's like I give him a little more Kudos
if it's just a MacBook could you imagine if your laptop broke and you had to go to the Genius Bar and
deal with one of those guys to try to get your billion dollar company back up and running yeah can you could you try
to fix this before lunch because we're losing billions well obviously business is good uh his business partner
Michael he's uh got a love for expensive cars and a lot of luxurious things in life and at this time you know from 2014
to 2017 crypto is booming the prices are going up Bitcoin is gone from you know just thousands of dollars up to ten
thousand dollars for one coin right but in 2017 things start to take a hit crypto's value is tanking so business
investors would do they start to try to withdraw their money and normally you can just put in you know
sell your crypto put in the withdrawal form and within 48 hours you're going to have your money in 48 hours I would say
would be a long wait time right because usually at least in today's time you can
have it pretty instantaneously if not within hours maybe in 2017 that process wasn't quite as panned out
I mean when crypto first started back in the day it was hard to buy crypto there
wasn't all of these exchanges and apps on your phone that you could buy you had to go to some shady sites to get it so
investors are trying to withdraw they're not getting any response they're emailing customer service who's then
telling them to open a trouble ticket then their treble tickets have an SLA or a you know service agreement time
they're not hearing back some of them are waiting months so people are upset the investors who have
hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars wrapped up in this are going online going on Reddit complaining about
this and even starting to file lawsuits this is one of the things I heard that was that made their company unique is
that it seems like other companies you would have to almost like apply to get your money out
and theirs were supposed to be more like readily available so the fact that once people started
trying to pull their money and they didn't have these stipulations in place this screwed them from the get-go they
had what their what we call third-party processors and the only way I can explain this is if you go to say you
know McDonald's or Starbucks when you pay for your coffee their Point of Sales Machine is probably owned by a third
party who's going to process your credit card and do all those things well they have third-party processors one's called
crypto Capital these processors take a fee also but with all of this legal rambling going on
quadrika is blaming their third-party processors and blaming some of the banks they use for the Slowdown right this is
just pointing the fingers and don't blame us they also have uh one of their fund holders is called custodian and
they had I think 28 million dollars in funds and quadraka is saying no they're they have our funds and we can't pay you
until they pay us right now let's go back for a second because back to these fake accounts right did you see a
breakdown on on how they think that the company started kind of getting upside down no go ahead and explain it yeah so
one of the things that they were doing is like but like we said he's running the whole company
from his laptop what we should say is before Gary cotton gets involved I don't like calling him Gary I'm going to call
him Gerald yeah that's fine old Gerald cotton gets involved they did have some buildings they did have a few employees
but once he got involved no offices no nothing just his laptop well he could go on in the middle of the night and just
basically create like a fake thousand Bitcoins and then he could start selling those to people and every
time he's selling you know 100 bucks here 50 bucks here their company's making money off those
transactions so he would do this and he actually created I think multiple fake people
and I don't even know if his business partners knew he was doing this but it reminds me of Shawshank Redemption when
you find out that Andy Dufresne created a fake guy and started funneling a bunch
of money to that account so but then what happens is if let's say we have a million dollars in in the pot and I
start adding money that was never there and now people are buying that eventually if I keep doing that once
people go to take their money there's not going to be enough money in the pot you have to rob Peter to pay Paul the
question then becomes to me for for these guys and and his you know Michael his his business partner why were they
doing this because they were making millions to solve transactions cryptocurrency is like
David Copper filled right it's like it's magic it's can't see it can't touch it but it's so
funny to me that these guys that are getting into these crypto currencies like you were saying Michael for example
had a love of expensive cars so they're using this fake entity basically and making money off this fake entity to buy
actual material things I just kind of find that a little ironic regardless of whether this business is
legitimate or not that's actually how a lot of places function it's almost like fake it till you make it right and
you know if he can create fake Bitcoins to sell and dump them into the pool I mean
that's just like the Federal Reserve just printing off more money right it's not that different to me but I could be
off base there well no I still think it's hilarious that they're called the Federal Reserve they're not federal at
all there is very clever name there is federal is Federal Express exactly at the time where these lawsuits
and things are happening his business partner Michael actually steps down and is just a shareholder in
the company at that point and Gerald is running the show Gerald at this point has his long-term girlfriend Jennifer
Robertson he thinks that this is a good time to marry Jennifer make her the only
employee listed at the company they're going to Honeymoon in India they had their eye on like uh sponsoring
a orphanage for children in India I think there was 12 kids at this orphanage and you know that's nice it's
you know they're trying to be giving and uh he walked in and he said I'll buy all 12 children yeah
yeah no I'll take all 12. uh but they're trying to be philanthropists with their
money and they get married they planned this trip to India for their honeymoon and they're going to go
there and adopt or you know sponsor this orphanage do you know when they got married so they end up getting married
June of 2018. I question that because right now the companies appears to be in turmoil and
legal turmoil with all these lawsuits and the inability to pay off a lot of the investors yeah but when things
aren't going good in life just get married it fixes everything yeah and they're going to Honeymoon in India
but here's what's weird though is they get married in June they're basically waiting until
December to Honeymoon yeah or they are they honeymooning for like months and months
well they they wait a little bit and you know because you know sometimes you have
to save up money for that honeymoon right when you're when you're running a billion dollar company off your MacBook
guess what I'm gonna go buy this weekend a Macbook try to figure out how to start a billion
dollar company yeah who's with me one of the interesting things about this case well maybe not interesting is the
right word but maybe confusing and maybe one of the reasons why people start questioning everything that you hear
about Gerald cotton is there's mixed reports just like we said they got married in June but they don't take
their honeymoon till a few months later and it doesn't there's conflicting stories on when their honeymoon actually
started and then there's conflicting stories on how many how many days was Gerald in India before he got sick and
went to the hospital some Reports say a week some Reports say two days now I found that he went
with his wife they checked in at the hotel and they went to a fondue party or a fondue restaurant now I know do you
fondue I don't fondue myself I'm not the biggest fan uh well maybe you'd be a happier person if you did dipping things
in cheese always makes them better Gerald cotton was known to have Crohn's disease okay
which is I guess uh really bad IBS it causes you great gastrointestinal problems it's it's not something that we
should take lightly it's not something that I I think oh it just had Crohn's disease that was it but
look it could get very bad and and depending on their the type of flare-up that the individual would have you know
I've had family members and stuff that have been hospitalized because of it so it's very it can be very serious I don't
know how deadly it is I don't know how many people will die from a flare-up Gerald
gets to India and some Reports say within 24 hours he's not only gone to the hospital for a
flare-up but he's become septic and he dies from complications you know and I guess my whole problem is
you know if you think okay you have Crohn's disease you're going to India maybe you go to a street vendor and you
order something that looks like meat on a stick and I think that stuff's great by the way I love Street vendors myself
I love taco trucks but the whole stereotype is he ate something bad in India and that caused him this
distress but if we're going off the time frame of within two days of him arriving
did he even have time to eat anything or was this flare-up happening on the plane
are you saying he he was doing a 40 hour fast no but you I get what you're saying it's
like saying like I have a bad stomach so when I go to Mexico the first thing I do
is drink a gallon of water you know we're not supposed to do that yeah so is it yeah it's very strange
um but here's one of the things that I kind of wonder his company's there's bad things happening in the
company there's illegal things now happening in the company you are doing some of those illegal
things you're creating fake characters and selling money that doesn't exist on in your business I wonder because of
the Crohn's disease if he didn't also have like some ulcers and some other stuff that was going on
to distress and that maybe he wasn't aware of because he's feeling like certain types of pain and certain
but he's he's he's dismissing that as his Crohn's disease it's very possible I agree I would be stressed out just the
fact that I'm running the company off of a MacBook he's at this Hospital he is declared dead
his wife now organizes or you know sets up transport for his body to be transported
I guess back to the hotel so they can find somebody to not really do an autopsy but do embalming
because they've already got the uh diagnosis from the doctor at the hospital that he died from like acute
gastrointestinal problems right so they find an embalmer they take his body there this embalmer says hey he didn't
come directly from the hospital he's been moved around you didn't follow protocol I'm not going to embalm him so
she takes his body back and they find a medical school Med students to do the embalming of his body this is
India maybe there is protocols and procedures there's language barriers you know maybe this is legit but it seems
like there's a lot of paperwork and moving around of his body at this point before she's able to get
him embalmed and then arrange transport for him to go back to Canada to Nova Scotia where they live and the uh 12
children at the orphanage they're left high and dry if I was one of those kids in that class I'd go you're a liar
told me I was getting new shoes I'm not and that happens on December 8th is when he goes to the hospital nobody
knows he's dead there's no announcements made nothing for a month quadriga is still business
as usual people are still depositing money into it still trying to do their exchanges
everything they have no clue but it's a month later that his wife posts it's a sad day
my husband Gerald cotton has passed away [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] we're back thanks for listening cheers
normally cheers to the crispy Colonel but uh I'm cheersing to you and uh this is recorded before we went to the
UK yes but I'm sure we're gonna have a couple drinks in the UK so I'm sure we will that's gonna be a fun time so let
me try to wrap my head around all this they go to India they're they're less than 48 hours he goes to the hospital
that's not to me that doesn't seem crazy when you find out that he has Crohn's disease
seems like something that's possible but then he dies and they won't embalm the body and they
have to do this loop around where they get some college students to do it or they actually
it was the little kids that they're trying to sponsor they're like we're going to have you embalm this body they
ship the body back to Canada and she doesn't tell any of his family members she just post it online
yeah Gerald had parents right have you seen any reports of them talking about his death not a lot trying
to find anything about it for that month period of time between his actual death
and her announcement I didn't find anything after that announcement you can find some some quotes
and whatnot but at that point it's not exactly it just doesn't seem to be known by anyone or reported by anyone
I'm trying to play Devil's Advocate because I'm trying to go okay well if he's the only one really running the
company and we announced now that he died and maybe look we don't even know at this point if she can get into his
computer that is running the whole company well we'll get to that okay we will get to that I'm just saying that
like yes it's a little fishy that she doesn't announce it for a month but you wonder is there some complications
because he's running this business by himself where they didn't want to that maybe they didn't want a run
on their server you know and and have all the money disappear yeah but one of the things
I don't know if you want to get to this now but they were together for a long time years before they got married but
before they went to India a few weeks before they went to India Gerald changes his whole will yeah he's
leaving a lot of his stuff to his wife they had two cute little Chihuahuas he even leaves like it's reported that he
leaves a hundred thousand dollars to the dogs do we know what the Chihuahua's names are I don't know wow
Nick would have known you can just imagine at this point this has caused complete and utter turmoil with the
investors yeah and they're doubling down on coming after this company and trying to get their
money the Canada Revenue Agency and their security and policies uh folks are now coming after this company
they're finding that a lot of these accounts were fake they're finding that Gerald had
communicated under false aliases to different organizations they're finding that
the hospital in India where he was declared dead well the chairman who ran that hospital
had actually been convicted of fraud two months prior oh surprise to Gerald's death surprise surprise
my first question was it was it even a real Hospital I mean I don't live there I have never
stepped foot in the place but according to the documents sure it's a real Hospital ran by fake doctors this
government agency comes after Jennifer and says all right you need to hand over his laptop you need to hand over
everything related to the company including all the passwords and passphrases to access it and what does
Jennifer say I don't have them the own the sole owner and proprietor of this company who is
delegated on you know he was delegated all of his stuff to his wife who is the only employee of the company right
he dies and she doesn't have a single password I have a hard time trusting people when I see that they have a
password pass code on their phone like what are you trying to hide why do you why does everybody in this world
need a passcode I wonder what this laptop and this makes a difference if it's a Macbook or a MacBook Pro because
the MacBook Pro I was like the finger identifier so they could chop his finger off
and she could like carry that around on a keychain and use it to unlock the laptop they
find that he had made several transfers or deposits of money from the company to personal accounts
ranging from a hundred million dollars to tens of millions of dollars right before his death
and it said that his laptop alone had 250 million dollars in crypto locked up on it
Jesus quarter trillion dollars now he was buying some stuff he I don't think he was known to buy
sports cars or anything like that but he he did buy some properties and he bought
a six hundred thousand dollar yacht like hey that's baller money right yeah I'm not real you know I'm just I'm just
not really into cars I buy yacht he didn't even know how to sail at the time of this purchase right he literally had
to take sailing lessons you know normally when you teach your kid how to drive a stick you you let them figure it
out on like a Honda Civic from you know the 1980s you don't get them a Ferrari to figure out how to drive a stick but
here he is he's got all the money in the world he can do whatever he buys a six hundred thousand dollar yacht who does
he think he is Conor McGregor they find out that his wife Jennifer Robinson she's changed her name four
times now she had been married and divorced so some of those name changes could be
explained but how many times was she I mean look if you're married four times and you change your name four times fine
right it wasn't four times but why are you just changing your name for no reason as we can assume the Canadian uh
government and law law enforcement is not happy with this so they get search warrants and they raid his properties
they're able to recover some hard drives they're able to recover some of the funds that were missing
Ernst young had a the ability to do you know recovery on these drives and break some of the uh
encryptions I guess they found that an account for someone named Chris Markay had transactions in excess of 220
million dollars that's a lot but who is Chris martay exactly I mean I know who he is but do
you want to tell the listeners oh go go ahead go ahead sorry so this is also Gerald yeah this is an alias and and so
you said how repeat that number again I just want that to sink in for everybody in excess of 220 million
dollars of cryptocurrency to a fake person that is the richest fake person I've ever I've ever heard of if you had
a fake person right that you're going to give millions of dollars to what would you name him
do you have a name you'd go by like Batman or the captain TCG Captain uh just to get you and then
I was arrested no I would I would go by uh Andy Kaufman that would be perfect and every now and then when I'm at a bar
I'll say I like to say when they go well what's your real name I say Andy Kaufman
or I'll say um Bond Scott they find that he didn't do his personal property tax returns for
2014 2015 or 2017 and in 2016 when he actually did file he showed that he didn't make any profit well In fairness
all that profit was going to his the fake person he created then add insult to injury they're able to recover
some of these funds from these hard drives but remember those third-party processors I was talking about
they're saying hey they still owe us money and you need to give us any of those funds recovered
and those third-party processes are trying to recover those funds as opposed to those funds going back to the actual
individuals the investors now what's what's going on with his body so he was embalmed by medical students
he was sent back to Nova Scotia and they buried him right away well guess what give me a shovel
let's dig up his dead bones and and see what he has to say for himself the investors are pressuring the
government to exhume his body and do a DNA test yeah there was a court hearing I believe
last year or two years ago now um the only thing I could find and maybe you found something better than me
uh it seemed as if whatever hearing that they had where it seemed like they're going to win the hearing pretty easily
but then that's been like delayed now because of covet so yeah I don't know actually where the
investors stand on the digging up the dead bones well when there's over a quarter
trillion dollars at hand I'm sure they're not going to give up anytime soon yeah it's sad that we you know
this should be a simple I wish the world worked like take any judge right and you go look what what do we know for
certain we know that Gerald was scamming people out of his money therefore he was doing
something illegal therefore he'd become a prisoner right so in a sense he becomes property of the
state so I do not feel bad for him his wife or any of his family members that were
going to dig him up to get answers you know sometimes when they want to dig somebody up I go hey hey they didn't
do anything wrong we should stop you know especially these cases where it's like they dig up the body multiple times
and do multiple autopsies and it's like by the third autopsy it's like can you even buy anything that the doctor is
saying because at that point the body is so mutilated but in this case we would know
is there is there really a person there or is this guy off somewhere else and then he becomes a fugitive we talked
about other partners in crime here like his uh his buddy Michael uh yeah Patron now he he and Michael claimed
that they'd only known each other for about five years at the time that this happened so you know if you take they
started the company in you know 2013 ish and then he dies in 2018. you know that's about a five-year time
but as further investigations into this Michael guy goes they find that Michael used to run
a website that was the first kind of shady crypto exchange website he created this website
called Talk gold and Gerald as a teenager went and joined this website that's where he met
Michael they would go on to create other sites I think one was called s s Investments
and this had a crypto I guess currency called Midas gold and it was run by a I use bank with air
quotes called Liberty reserve and Liberty reserve was allegedly ran by an American in Costa Rica
who laundered money so you take your drug money you take your human trafficking money yes you go
to this website you buy this Midas gold second can you tell me that website again so I can write it down
it's not there anymore so you're saying so now what should I do with my drug money so they go there and
they buy this Midas gold which think it's processed however through Liberty reserve
who then would turn around convert it back into Fiat cash for a fee hand it back to you
essentially laundering the money that's awesome now Liberty reserves like real life
Ozark right yeah exactly but it's all digital online digital Reserve did not keep any records
of their clients any kind of database so you could track who was buying this and
withdrawing it yeah I'm going to call my call my company Liberty Federal Financial responsibly conservative
Reserve Liberty reserve was reported to have over 5 million users and over 8 billion
in assets so this is uh so basically what you're saying is investigators have now figured out that they they this
scheme this was a scheme all along and that they because that they were going like no matter
it's almost like they came up with this scheme and they didn't expect it to blow
up and become somewhat legitimate and it did and that actually throws a wrench into
their plan of just having a a scam service because quadrica quadriga CX was platformed on Liberty reserve
my God wow Michael Patron I don't know what his real name was because he was actually arrested for
identity fraud as Omar danani what's with everybody changing their names I just don't trust people that don't use
their real name you know those use your real name be honest people says the captain I have a boat I have a
yacht 600 000 600 million dollar yacht I'll just messing with you Gerald which is using alias's creating fake accounts
fake people we have Michael his partner using Alias is creating fake individuals
we have his wife that has changed her name multiple times some like like we said if you get
married and divorced and you can you know change your name there and and you'll change your name coming back
but it's still strange that she's changed her name multiple times I think that these investors are very justified in
their complete and utter disbelief that Gerald cotton has died but just one more detail for you his
name's Gerald cotton his last name is spelled c-o-t-t-e-n on his death certificate it's spelled
c-o-t-t-a-n he does have stomach issues that's why I'm like it's not impossible that
and with the stress that he look and I don't feel bad for him because he is the one that put the
stress on him I wouldn't put it past him that something bad happened or or maybe
even like committed suicide and for whatever reason his wife is covering it up because if she if he committed
suicide maybe she wouldn't get certain things so I want to put it past him that the
the death is not real not saying it is real I'm just saying it's possible people die in their 30s people die from
stress related complications especially with somebody that has something look Crohn's disease disease normally
will not cause death but if you're super stressed out because you're creating fake people and you're
creating fake money and you have millions and millions of dollars that are technically not real
and millions and millions of dollars that you owe to people and you don't have the money to fund that
because you just bought a giant yacht this can cause some stress issues so it's possible that he he could have died
I'm leaning towards now he didn't I would but I would bet my [ __ ] my cryptocurrency on the fact that
he's still alive now what's interesting though is in this case as as opposed to so many other mysterious deaths or
Unexplained Mysteries I think we're going to get answers to this because if they
finally get a judge to sign off to have his body exhumed we'll know and at that point it's either a there's
not going to be a body in that grave B there'll be somebody else's body in that grave or nobody right you think it's or
now okay now if we're going to bet cryptocurrency I'm betting he's not there right
but I'm also betting that there's just not a body and here's where I think he's screwed up
I don't mind so much that the death certificate has like the name spelled wrong because he was in a different
country here's what gets me because Gerald doesn't seem like a dumb guy so so here's here's my issue and this is
the part that pulls me back and now if you said okay you have to bet right I would bet that he's not in that
grave but if you said well you don't have to bet all of the money there's a 10 15
chance that I go this is real he actually died stress whatever and the proof is he could have been cremated
right and I don't even know like how well like DNA tests work on ashes so as long as I think you could get like
human remains you could come back and go well here it is you think about how easy
that would be yeah like why wasn't he cremated because that would have cleared the Slate here like he was
buried so there's still quote unquote evidence of his existence if she would have had him cremated
we wouldn't really be having this conversation because I don't know if they could actually do but that's what
I'm saying they dig up the body he's there I think maybe that's the tell that you know and maybe his family would
say I don't know I'm just saying like it's not that it's not that hard for I mean
we haven't I mean I've never sat around and thought about faking my death but I'm going hey you go to India you die
from this uh this stomach issues he had me cremated but because that didn't happen like you
said there is evidence so that that is that that little bit that goes maybe this is just
what happened it's possible I wonder if uh you know his buddy Michael what if he had him killed yeah but he
would have to be in cahoot I mean there's the wife right you would think unless it was a
plan just gone horribly wrong like I'm gonna kill him and get all the crypto and then kill the wife and get the rest
of the stuff or just get the crypto and take off I don't know I mean there's there's some theories there of
what could have happened I'm more or less he did this he faked his own death and he took off or like
you said he actually died of natural causes like the official story says but with the totality of evidence here the
totality of his just criminal behavior from a teenager on and every single person he engaged with
in their Shady Behavior I just I can't accept that this is real because it would be the worst possible
timing and the worst possible planning of getting married going on a honeymoon in
the middle of all of this and then dying right in the middle of it it's like what
would the chances that you're in agreeance with me where you say the big mistake in this whole plan would
be not to be cremated and you and I just wonder maybe there is some kind of background with his family
with religious or whatever that that wasn't an option in his plan and I think that there'll be a Manhunt for him
on a scale that uh we've never seen before and I if I was one of those you know multi-million dollars but you're
just not telling them if Justin's even your real name well if yeah if if I was you bet your ass I would be
hiring some Headhunters to go find him and there's so much more to this case I mean we tried to fit everything we could
into you know an hour but you can go down the rabbit hole there is so many more details so many more schemes Ponzi
schemes and and criminal acts that I just didn't even feel the need to mention because I want to be surprised
if they don't make some kind of documentary out of this because there's enough meat on the bones
to to chew on this one for a long time I would love to hear what your listeners think did this guy dive natural causes
or do you think he's uh sitting on some beach sipping on uh an expensive Margarita yeah so tell us your thoughts
at truecrime garage.com click on the blog and let us know what you think Justin it's always so great to hang out
with you thanks so much for joining us here in the garage and I look forward to hanging out no problem
and London with you awesome it's been my honor thank you so much cheers [Music] thank you so much for joining us here in
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This week, the Captain invites Justin from Generation Why to join him in the garage and discuss the perplexing case of Canadian crypto-millionaire, Gerald Cotten, who died on his honeymoon.

We’re drinking Guinness: a smooth, dark stout that’s creamy in texture with an after-bite that’s both bitter and sweet. It’s malty, chocolatey and has a subtle punch of coffee. This classic brew originates from Dublin, Ireland. Although, I’m told by the Irish that Guinness only lives up to its reputation on Irish soil. Regardless, my dad calls it the adult protein shake. I give it 4.5 out of 5 bottle caps.

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Brief Summary

Gerald Cotten's mysterious death raises questions about fraud and legitimacy in cryptocurrency.

Key points

The Mysterious Death of Gerald Cotton. Exploring the unexplained death of the cryptocurrency millionaire and founder of Quadriga CX.
Running a Billion-Dollar Company from a Laptop. Gerald Cotton managed a massive cryptocurrency exchange from his MacBook, raising eyebrows about legitimacy.
Marriage Amidst Chaos. Gerald Cotton marries Jennifer during a tumultuous time for his company, raising questions about priorities.
The Body Embalming Controversy. After his death, the process of embalming Gerald Cotton's body becomes complicated and suspicious.
Gerald Cotton's Mysterious Death. Gerald Cotton's death raises questions about the legitimacy of his passing and the handling of his body.
The Missing Passwords. Jennifer claims she doesn't have access to Gerald's passwords, raising red flags.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

My dad calls it adult milkshake.

Referring to Guinness.

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Tension

75/ 100High tension

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