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Speaker 1: Truck stop brothels run by a web of ex cons,

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Speaker 1: a commonwealth attorney wasted on whiskey and power, protection exchanged

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Speaker 1: for cash and flesh. A brash local reporter exposing it all.

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Speaker 1: This is hooker game, criminals and libertines in the South,

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Speaker 1: and I am your host and lifelong wayward woman, doctor

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Speaker 1: Lindsey Byron. Three years ago, I came across a gold

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Speaker 1: mine of news clippings detaelling a scandal that rocked my

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Speaker 1: small southern hometown. As I flipped through each page, this

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Speaker 1: forgotten story came back to life.

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Speaker 2: These operators utilized inner state facilities to further the prostitution activities.

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Speaker 3: I was told that it was just supposed to be

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Speaker 3: strictly a massage parlor.

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Speaker 4: The investigation revealed that Holly and Whitehead never paid the

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Speaker 4: girls for sexual favors, and Whitehead bragged about being the

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Speaker 4: commonwealth attorney.

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Speaker 3: In Dan Wolf's Barker. He ran to Dan bl Operation.

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Speaker 3: He beats me continuously.

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Speaker 5: If you print anything that you hear in the grand jury, you.

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Speaker 4: Will be put in jail. My boyfriend threatened me and

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Speaker 4: told me that if I didn't get out and go

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Speaker 4: to work, I'd never seen my daughter again.

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Speaker 5: I asked the man, what does it take to get

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Speaker 5: into this lounge? He replied, all you have to do

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Speaker 5: is wonderful.

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Speaker 3: I never gave any massages.

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Speaker 1: Join me as I bring to life a wild menagerie

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Speaker 1: of country boys, kingpins, and working girls living the high

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Speaker 1: life until it all came crashing down. Listen to hooker Gate,

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Speaker 1: Criminals and Libertines in the South starting March nineteenth on

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