9 year old Alice Barnes went to herd cows in the middle of the day, walking the same route she had traversed many times before, and encountering multiple people along the way. Nothing about that scenario speaks of the danger she was soon to encounter, join me as I discuss the brazen nature of a crime which shocked the town of Blackburn. 


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