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All of a sudden, he says, Linda, I

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see a skull. Deep

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in the heart of the Ozarks,

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a mysterious disappearance turns into a

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grisly discovery. I'm thinking

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they're lying like hell because my little

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girl wasn't dead. Two

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young women murdered. I

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have nightmares about this. I have nightmares

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that she's asking for help and I

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can't help her. It's

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the connection to one of the

0:29

most infamous serial killers of all

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time and one very familiar name

0:33

stepping out from the shadows of

0:35

the past. Well first

0:37

he chose his own moniker, find

0:39

them, torture them, kill them, easy

0:42

K. And a once

0:44

cold case is pulled off the shelves in

0:46

real time as investigators race

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to solve a gruesome dark

0:51

puzzle. The skull was

0:53

detached from the body and

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the rib cage was detached

0:58

from the body. You

1:00

know, the only clothes that was on the

1:02

body that we found was where the

1:04

pelvis and legs were. And

1:06

tennis shoes, she had tennis shoes on. My

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name is M. William Phelps. I'm

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an investigative journalist, true crime author of

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close to 50 books and

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the host of the podcast

1:18

Paper Ghosts. Now in

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its fourth season for My Heart Media.

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For the past several years I've

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been reinvestigating the cases of

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two young women abducted from their

1:30

small towns, their bodies dumped

1:32

deep in the Ozark woods. Cold

1:36

cases I'm breaking wide open,

1:38

bringing families answers after 30 long

1:41

years of silence and waiting.

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I'm not apt to give up on it and

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I have reason to believe that it

1:49

will be solved. As

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my investigation unfolds, gaining insight

1:53

from those who were there,

1:56

even three decades later some

1:58

sources are still there. still

2:00

terrified, speaking out. With

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a new suspect emerging. Well

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that's a problem with a serial killer because with a

2:23

serial killer you kind of got to

2:25

build the bodies. As a

2:27

heated confrontation with an alleged

2:30

psychopath ensues. I'm

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asking you, did you kill those

2:36

girls? You got all this information.

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Now why did you ask me if

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you already knew? What do you think?

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Well look, lots of people,

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including me, think you did. Long

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held secrets finally revealed sending

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authorities rushing to confront a suspect.

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Hiding in plain sight.