One woman risked life and limb to escape the grips of a predator. Her goal was simply to make it home to her children alive. There was no way she could have known that ensuring her attacker was found would reveal so much more, and likely save other lives. In working with authorities, this woman was able to uncover her attacker for what he truly was ...a serial killer. Her statements about the crime, however, were given under controversial circumstances. As such, the authenticity of her statements was called into question. Join me as I walk you through the case involving Sandra Sapaugh.

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Production & Music: John & Jessica Bukenas of Audio Editing Solutions (production), Nico Vettese of We Talk of Dreams (music).

Research & Writing: Lincoln Edgemon.

In order to tell true crime stories on this podcast, information is gathered from various sources which sometimes includes, news articles, newspaper archives, blogs, social media, tv productions, police reports, court records, books, magazine articles, direct interviews, and more. I recognize that often, someone before me put in a lot of time and effort to gather information that I draw from to help tell these stories. I want to thank those individuals for their hard work.

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