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Speaker 1: He was a gruesome discovery, kind of the last thing

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Speaker 1: loggers widening an interstate here in Burning, Connecticut we ever

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Speaker 1: thought they'd come upon. But it certainly answers some questions

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Speaker 1: in the local disappearances of four young women. You've seen

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Speaker 1: them tack to telephone poles, on the internet, plastered on billboards,

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Speaker 1: the missing. I pray every day that we find these

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Speaker 1: a so we can go on the murdered. She always

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Speaker 1: told my mom on a twenty one birthday, I'm coming

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Speaker 1: by to us. I'm gonna be streaking you watch. She

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Speaker 1: never came. She never came. Unsolved cold cases Jesus Marion

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Speaker 1: Josephina helped us out of grave for many A faded

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Speaker 1: photograph on a piece of paper, the only thread of

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Speaker 1: hope left. Paper Ghosts, I'm in William Phelps, an investigative journalist,

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Speaker 1: true crime author, and host of Paper Ghosts, a new

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Speaker 1: investigative podcast from my Heart Radio. For more than a decade,

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Speaker 1: I've been searching for the person or persons responsible for

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Speaker 1: the abductions and probable murders of four missing girls in

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Speaker 1: my New England hometown. For over fifty years, each case

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Speaker 1: has remained unsolved. I've spoken to anyone even remotely involved, friends, family, neighbors, detectives, suspects,

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Speaker 1: you name it. But it wasn't until this past year

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Speaker 1: that things took an unexpected turn, and after eleven years

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Speaker 1: And then the tears just came in. Came in, came

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Speaker 1: answers to decades old questions. In some closure, these families

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Speaker 1: have been searching for the shirts he wore, the cherry

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Speaker 1: to the Backshope, I know that that's the person that

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Speaker 1: was there. I can describe what he's wearing. I can

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Speaker 1: smell him a mile away. Every day is like being

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Speaker 1: lost in Gimbo. Coming soon, Paper Ghosts. Get it on

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