Speaker 1: All of a sudden, he says, Linda Isa's.
Speaker 2: Skull deep in the heart of the ozarks. A mysterious
Speaker 2: disappearance turns into a grisly discovery.
Speaker 3: I'm thinking they're lying like hell, because my little girl
Speaker 3: wasn't dead.
Speaker 2: Two young women murdered.
Speaker 1: I have nightmares about this. I have nightmares that she's
Speaker 1: asking for help and I can't help her.
Speaker 2: With a connection to one of the most infamous serial
Speaker 2: killers of all time and one very familiar name stepping
Speaker 2: out from the shadows of the past, well, first he
Speaker 2: chose his own moniker behind them, torture them, kill them BTK,
Speaker 2: and a once cold case is pulled off the shelves
Speaker 2: in real time as investigators race to solve a gruesome,
Speaker 2: dark puzzle.
Speaker 3: The skull was they headed from the body, and the
Speaker 3: rig page was detached from the body. The only clothes
Speaker 3: that was on the body that we found was where
Speaker 3: the pelvis legs were in tenees. She had tenchees on.
Speaker 2: My name is em William Phelps. I'm an investigative journalist,
Speaker 2: true crime author of close to fifty books, and the
Speaker 2: host of the podcast Paper ghosts Now in its fourth
Speaker 2: season from My Heart Media for the past several years,
Speaker 2: I've been reinvestigating the cases of two young women abducted
Speaker 2: from their small towns, their bodies dumped deep in the
Speaker 2: Ozark Woods. Cold cases. I'm breaking wide open, bringing families
Speaker 2: answers after thirty long years of silence and waiting. I'm
Speaker 2: not out to give up on it, and I have
Speaker 2: reason to believe that it will be solved. As my
Speaker 2: investigation unfolds, gaining insight from those who were there. Even
Speaker 2: three decades later, some sources are still terrified, speaking out.
Speaker 1: This guy is fixing to kill this girl. But he
Speaker 1: never moved. He just stood there with his arms folded,
Speaker 1: this smirky smile in her, this dancing, and I, oh
Speaker 1: my god, this is some kind of a murder.
Speaker 2: With a new suspect emerging.
Speaker 3: Well, that's the problem with a serial killer, because with
Speaker 3: a serial.
Speaker 2: Killer, you got to you kind of gotta build the bodies.
Speaker 2: As a heated confrontation with an alleged cycle path ensues,
Speaker 2: I'm asking you, did you kill those girls.
Speaker 3: In those information?
Speaker 1: No one did you ask me if I knew? What
Speaker 1: do you think?
Speaker 2: Well, look, lots of people, including me, think you did.
Speaker 2: Long held secrets finally revealed sending authorities rushing to confront
Speaker 2: a suspect who has been hiding in plain sight for decades.
Speaker 2: Coming February twenty, first season four of Paper Ghosts Theosons.
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