i was worried to kill him herself? and then a revelation, the dead man had a dangerous dream. we ended up finding a lot of paperwork, relating to the oil business. i remember telling, us i m going to make millions of dollars. a big money bencher, oozing with outlaws. a violent individual, in prison for robbery. a big man, probably 250 pounds. steroid, rock muscle. significant criminal history. greed as would kill my dad. what caused all of. this a thirst for oil, it lost for blood. i trusted a con artist. i trusted a sociopath. what is going to happen to the quiet little prairie town, when oil comes along? among the green and pleasant landscapes of american privilege, is a fine historic rise of land, called the south hill. here, for 100 years, it is been the home of spokane s washington elites, in their queen and craftsman manage, it s quiet, rectitude, and certainly not the kind of story we are about to tell. the kind of story with ambitious men, dark plo
bursting with pent-up testosterone. by the time doug met his awful fate in 2013 the wild black gold rush around the bakken oil fields had peaked. but investors looking for a big payday wouldn t have known that yet. and with great was of eager cash they chased a stake in what they hoped might be billions still in the ground. apparently, doug carlile was one of them. according to family, he got turned onto oil by a friend who knew a guy. he told us about north dakota. hey, it s booming there. you should go check things out and see what s happening. first, doug partnered in a trucking company that served north dakota s many oil rigs. an outfit called blackstone, started by the guy his friend introduced him to. and then opportunity knocked. one of those opportunities of a lifetime, ordained from above, according to doug. the whole thing kind of fell into his lap. and i think he thought that that was his calling from god, was to move forward in that
excavator, not an oil man. but, of course a whole army of ambitious, hard-working men had fled established careers to grab a piece of the wealth dangled so enticingly by north dakota s oil-fracking boom. thus, were prairie towns on sudden steroids and man camps bursting with pent-up testosterone. by the time doug met his awful fate, the wild black gold rush around the bakken oil fields had peaked. but investors looking for a big payday wouldn t have known that yet. and with eager cash, they chased a stake in what they hope were billions still in the ground. apparently, doug carlile was one of them. according to family, he got turned onto oil by a friend who knew a guy. he told us about north dakota. hey, it s booming there. you should go check things out and see what s happening. first, doug partnered in a trucking company that served north dakota s many oil rigs.
of people who had bought into this and invested. wait a minute, who offers a 100% return so fast? was this for real? the names, reports, and records all seemed to be related to one thing. we ended up finding a lot of paperwork related to the oil business in north dakota. the oil business? why that? doug carlile, remember, was an excavator, not an oil man. but of course a whole army of ambitious, hard-working men had fled established careers to grab for a piece of the wealth dangled so enticingly by north dakota s oil-fracking boom. thus, were prairie towns on sudden steroids and man camps bursting with pent-up testosterone. by the time doug met his awful fate in 2013 the wild black gold rush around the bakken oil fields had peaked. but investors looking for a big
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