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Speaker 1: All of a sudden, he says, Linda Isa's.

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Speaker 2: Skull deep in the heart of the ozarks. A mysterious

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Speaker 2: disappearance turns into a grisly discovery.

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Speaker 3: I'm thinking they're lying like hell, because my little girl

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Speaker 3: wasn't dead.

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Speaker 2: Two young women murdered.

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Speaker 1: I have nightmares about this. I have nightmares that she's

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Speaker 1: asking for help and I can't help her.

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Speaker 2: With a connection to one of the most infamous serial

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Speaker 2: killers of all time and one very familiar name stepping

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Speaker 2: out from the shadows of the past, well, first he

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Speaker 2: chose his own moniker behind them, torture them, kill them BTK,

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Speaker 2: and a once cold case is pulled off the shelves

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Speaker 2: in real time as investigators race to solve a gruesome,

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Speaker 2: dark puzzle.

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Speaker 3: The skull was they headed from the body, and the

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Speaker 3: rig page was detached from the body. The only clothes

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Speaker 3: that was on the body that we found was where

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Speaker 3: the pelvis legs were in tenees. She had tenchees on.

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Speaker 2: My name is em William Phelps. I'm an investigative journalist,

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Speaker 2: true crime author of close to fifty books, and the

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Speaker 2: host of the podcast Paper ghosts Now in its fourth

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Speaker 2: season from My Heart Media for the past several years,

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Speaker 2: I've been reinvestigating the cases of two young women abducted

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Speaker 2: from their small towns, their bodies dumped deep in the

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Speaker 2: Ozark Woods. Cold cases. I'm breaking wide open, bringing families

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Speaker 2: answers after thirty long years of silence and waiting. I'm

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Speaker 2: not out to give up on it, and I have

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Speaker 2: reason to believe that it will be solved. As my

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Speaker 2: investigation unfolds, gaining insight from those who were there. Even

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Speaker 2: three decades later, some sources are still terrified, speaking out.

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Speaker 1: This guy is fixing to kill this girl. But he

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Speaker 1: never moved. He just stood there with his arms folded,

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Speaker 1: this smirky smile in her, this dancing, and I, oh

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Speaker 1: my god, this is some kind of a murder.

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Speaker 2: With a new suspect emerging.

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Speaker 3: Well, that's the problem with a serial killer, because with

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Speaker 3: a serial.

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Speaker 2: Killer, you got to you kind of gotta build the bodies.

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Speaker 2: As a heated confrontation with an alleged cycle path ensues,

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Speaker 2: I'm asking you, did you kill those girls.

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Speaker 3: In those information?

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Speaker 1: No one did you ask me if I knew? What

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Speaker 1: do you think?

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Speaker 2: Well, look, lots of people, including me, think you did.

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Speaker 2: Long held secrets finally revealed sending authorities rushing to confront

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Speaker 2: a suspect who has been hiding in plain sight for decades.

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Speaker 2: Coming February twenty, first season four of Paper Ghosts Theosons.

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