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Frozen Jar, Hidden Fraud: How a Fake Doctor Killed a Follower

Frozen Jar, Hidden Fraud: How a Fake Doctor Killed a Follower

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Frozen Jar, Hidden Fraud: How a Fake Doctor Killed a Follower

Cold evidence started the case: a jar that should have been solid after six hours in a delivery freezer at 4:40 a.m. at an outside temperature of 28 degrees was liquid, and the discovery led to a search warrant issued the same afternoon for a converted farmhouse less than two miles up Tenwick Road-how did that jar connect to a man with no medical degree who had convinced thirty people he could heal them?

In this episode, we tell the story of the Portell Institute and the people who lived there, believed there, and in one case died there, before anyone outside looked. We follow how Bruce Alan Hunter presented himself, the routines inside the converted farmhouse on Tenwick Road, and the questions that began with a single jar-what happened inside that utility room freezer?

Person: Bruce Alan Hunter
Location: Tenwick Road, Portell County
Event: Search warrant executed the afternoon after 4:53 a.m. call
Followers: Approximately 30 people formed around Hunter
Resident examples: Connie Owens (age 52), Michael Torrance (age 44), Meredith Stoll (age 63)

- The jar was removed from a delivery freezer at 4:40 a.m. and was not frozen after six hours despite an outside temperature of 28 degrees.
- Valerie Adams called the Portell County Sheriff at 4:53 a.m., prompting investigators to obtain a search warrant that same afternoon.
- Bruce Hunter presented credentials claiming an M.D. from Harmon College of Osteopathic Medicine (dissolved 1991) and a Ph.D. from Western States Institute of Applied Sciences; no records found for those claims.
- Approximately 40 people attended Hunter’s initial seminar “Cellular Restoration” and roughly 30 later became followers at the Portell Institute.
- Connie Owens, a 52-year-old surgical recovery nurse with type 2 diabetes and a thyroid disorder, was one of the first eight to move into the institute in spring 2018.

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