The Hotel Amputation: How a Retired Engineer Died in Tijuana
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The Hotel Amputation: How a Retired Engineer Died in Tijuana
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Fear and fascination meet at the border: a 79-year-old retired satellite engineer crossed into Tijuana to have a healthy limb removed and was dead the next morning in a National City hotel room-his left leg amputated the day before by a surgeon whose license had been revoked in 1977. How did a man with a lifetime of precision end up under the knife of a doctor known as "Butcher Brown," and what single decision at a hotel doorway decided who lived and who died?
In this episode, we tell the story of Philip Bondy, the surgeon John Ronald Brown, and Gregg M. Furth, and we follow the events from Bondy’s years-long search for amputation to the crossing into Tijuana and the aftermath found in San Ysidro. What did investigators discover that linked the operation to death, and what was seen at the threshold that stopped one man from entering?
Person: Philip Bondy
Age: 79
Person: John Ronald Brown
Date: May 10, 1998
Location: National City, California
- Bondy’s left leg was amputated in Tijuana the day before he was found dead on May 10, 1998.
- John Ronald Brown had his California medical license revoked in 1977 for gross negligence and related charges.
- Police searching Brown’s San Ysidro apartment found blood-soaked towels, sheets, and a mattress saturated with blood.
- Investigators also found anaesthetizing drugs, surgical instruments, videotapes of operations, and hundreds of tubes of super glue.
- Gregg M. Furth, who traveled with Bondy and also sought amputation, turned back because he saw an assistant carrying a large knife into the operating room.
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