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How do some sex offenders manage to escape notice? That is, until something awful happens. In this case, a child paid the price. 

In this episode of Gulf Coast Confidential, Pam Hill and I talk about the abduction and murder of a 12-year-old Pensacola girl by a registered sex offender. How did he go unnoticed? Because Robert Howard thumbed his nose at the justice system. 

The Alabama man moved in part-time with his girlfriend across the state line in Florida, where no one was the wiser that he had just served 15 years in prison for rape. 

Join us for a closer look at the heartbreaking case of Naomi Jones and how her disappearance stunned the community who came from every corner of the county to search for the girl. 

Until fishermen found the little girl where Howard left her, leaving them to wonder, "It's her, isn't?"

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