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Learn how the Bakersfield community came together in 1954 to fulfill a dying boy's final wishes. 

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This story covers the 1950 murder outside The Lucky Spot, a Bakersfield Honky Tonk.
Researched and written by Carolyn S. Harvey

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I wanted to share the emergency radio traffic from Thursday's downtown Bakersfield Christmas parade incident. 

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Diana Contreras was abducted from the Valley Plaza mall while Christmas shopping in 1993. Her body was found in Taft the next day. This is that story.

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This episode covers the 1999 tragic death of Melissa Lonon, an 18-year-old mother to two children.

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If you've kept up on recent Bakersfield news, you're probably familiar with some aspects of The Bakersfield Three story.

It's a complex story with multiple people involved...it was a difficult story to follow in the news. But a recently released episodic podcast, The Bakersfield Three, helps guide listeners through this case with ease.

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Rachel Legan is a Bakersfield media personality. She worked in both radio a television, delivering the news or hosting her morning show on the radio.  Rachel tells us about an event in her life that made headlines in Bakersfield in 1994-crimes that didn't involve her, but impacted her life greatly. 

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 For 72 years residents have flocked to the Kern County Fairgrounds on South P Street for fun and amusement.  What many people don't realize, three years before the fair moved here, this location was the site of one of Bakersfield's most horrific murders.
 
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This story occurred on Halloween 1986.  Two murders. One in Bakersfield, One in Hesperia. Both committed by the same man. 

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