On December 7, 2003, 13-year-old Daniel Morcombe decided to spend his Sunday shopping at the Sunshine Plaza, hoping to find Christmas gifts for his family. To get there, he would need to take a 20-minute bus ride. As he waited for the bus, unaware that it had broken down, Daniel could never have imagined that a predator was lurking nearby, ready to take advantage of his unfortunate situation.

Warning: This episode includes violence against children. A warning before this is discussed is provided within the show. 

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Kiels Mountain Road Underpass
https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/10-years-later-the-life-and-death-of-daniel-morcombe/news-story/9f19aadc0645ea907316d2816e9b752d
https://archive.sclqld.org.au/qjudgment/2013/QSC13-337.pdf
https://archive.sclqld.org.au/qjudgment/2015/QCA15-087.pdf
Confession Video
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https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/prisoner-who-tortured-daniel-morcombes-killer-said-he-had-it-coming/0b69o2v2h
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-01/child-killer-laws/100665802
https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/daniel-morcombe-murder-trial-brett-peter-cowans-second-confession-shown-in-court-20140227-33md8.html
Crime Investigation Australia

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On the morning of January 16, 2014 a man was found yelling out for help on the sidewalk outside of his home in Walsenburg, CO. He had a traumatic brain injury and his wife had been murdered. After looking into the couple's family history the Colorado Bureau of Investigation discovered there were many possible suspects both within the family and out.

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On September 8, 1978 15 year old Raynham, MA resident, Mary Lou Arruda, was kidnapped while riding her bike to her friends house on the first friday of the new school year. Could her disappearance have had something to do with the fact that she grew up in the middle of what paranormal psychologists had coined the Bridgewater Triangle? Could it have been the work of the satanic cult who practiced their rituals in the Freetown State forest, or had the devil himself rode into town? Join me as I tell John the case of Mary Lou Arruda. 

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https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/ma-supreme-judicial-court/1038292.html
https://www.wickedlocal.com/story/journal-news-independent/2016/01/26/no-tears-in-raynham-on/987501007/
https://www.silvafuneralhome.com/obituaries/joanne-arruda
https://www.enterprisenews.com/story/news/crime/2016/01/31/steve-damish-time-to-delete/32590506007/
https://lailasnews.com/international/mary-lou-arruda-death-obituary-how-james-kater-death-happened/
https://www.wickedlocal.com/story/journal-news-independent/2016/02/01/decades-later-arruda-case-looms/32587202007/
https://www.patriotledger.com/picture-gallery/entertainment/2020/10/28/enter-the-bridgewater-triangle-if/581946007/
https://law.justia.com/cases/massachusetts/supreme-court/1983/388-mass-519-2.html#:~:text=*522%20On%20November%2011%2C%201978,afternoon%20of%20September%208%2C%201978.
Articles from the Boston Globe from 1978-2002 accessed via Newspapers.com

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In August of 2003 Sonya Ivanoff went missing after parting ways with her best friend and roommate. Within hours of being reported missing her body was found in a remote old mining road in Nome, Alaska. Police were shocked by the lack of evidence at the scene. It made them wonder if their killer had done this before…

NOTE: In the show I used the term Native American, however, it has been brought to my attention that this is the incorrect terminology. Rather I should have used the term Alaska Native when referencing Sonya Ivanoff and other peoples indigenous to Alaska. I apologize. 

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https://law.justia.com/cases/alaska/court-of-appeals/2021/a-13016.html
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ivanoff-24
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/rural-alaska/2018/08/23/from-2003-nome-police-must-work-to-regain-trust-after-officer-charged-with-murder/
https://www.oxygen.com/dateline-unforgettable/crime-news/alaska-officer-matt-owens-convicted-murder-sonya-ivanoff
https://www.newspapers.com/image/579071706/?match=1&terms=sonya%20ivanoff
https://www.newspapers.com/image/1061988740/?match=1&terms=sonya%20ivanoff
https://www.newspapers.com/image/1061933416/?match=1&terms=sonya%20ivanoff
https://www.newspapers.com/image/1137349180/?match=1&terms=sonya%20ivanoff
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In the sleepy Fort Worth enclave of River Oaks football, like in all Texas towns, was king. The energy surrounding Friday nights under the stadium lights was electric. Football wasn’t just a game, it was a way of life. The players were hometown heroes, the cheerleaders their shining counterparts, and together they stood at the center of the community’s pride. To many, they were untouchable teenage gods living out through their glory years. But when whispers of fear began to spread, that illusion of safety cracked. Someone out there was watching the cheerleaders. Hunting them. One by one, the girls who had once been celebrated as the town’s brightest stars would become targets in a chilling game of obsession that would end in blood. What seemed like the plot in the newest slasher film quickly became the reality for the students of Castleberry High School in 1981.


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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dangerous-reunion/
Murder Under the Friday Night Lights, Season 1 Episode 1 
https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/convict-to-return-to-prison-for-jailhouse-romance/285-342720631
https://law.justia.com/cases/texas/second-court-of-appeals/2010/21828.html
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/tx-court-of-appeals/1410329.html
https://www.tuko.co.ke/facts-lifehacks/celebrity-biographies/485957-where-wesley-miller-today-retha-strattons-prison-sentence/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dangerous-reunion/
Newspapers.com

Hudson, Wisconsin is a sleepy, quiet community bordering the St. Croix river. In 2002, as the rest of the country adjusted to the growing crime rates of the 21st century Hudson locked itself away in its tight northwest corner of the state. Everyone truly knew everyone and daily interactions between the residents resembled episodes from Leave It to Beaver and The Andy Griffith Show. That was why, when a beloved member of their community was murdered, the town was left reeling. It would be difficult, but, in order to catch the killer, the town would have to face their demons. 

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In late October of 2012 the sudden disappearance of Katrina Smith left an Illinois community reeling. As the days went on the search for her revealed troubling clues as to what had happened to her. Detectives in this case were confronted with many bizarre circumstances and possible suspects, but it would be the revelation of a shocking secret that would lead them straight to their killer. 

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/katrina-smith-her-husband-thought-033832831.html
https://www.illinoiscourts.gov/Resources/fd640f4a-f898-4ca4-9e9a-bb6ddcbf9afe/2170299_R23.pdf#:~:text=Trial%20court%20affirmed.,in%20the%20Department%20of%20Corrections.
Articles retrieved from the Chicago Tribune, The Times (Streator, Il), Northwest Herald, Southtown Star, and The Daily Republican-Register through Newspapers.com between the dates of 2012-2018
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In the late afternoon of July 12, 1988 the neighborhood search for four year old Barbara Jean Horn would end abruptly after the girl’s body was discovered completely washed and nude in a television box just over a quarter of a mile from her home. The hunt for the man that committed the horrific crime and the subsequent trials that would follow would expose other wrong doings and injustices in the city of Philadelphia. 

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https://www.newspapers.com/image/169372109/?match=1&terms=barbara%20jean%20horn
https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Barbara_Jean_Horn
https://northeasttimes.com/2020/04/09/barbara-jean-horns-mom-release-walter-ogrod-he-is-innocent/
https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/barbara-jean-horn-murder-philadelphia-walter-ogrod/
https://www.poconorecord.com/story/news/2003/07/17/man-confesses-to-1987-rape/50978184007/
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6825730-The-Snitch-Career-Thief-A-Master-at-Dropping-the/
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/investigations/former-philadelphia-police-detectives-frank-jastrzembski-manuel-santiago-martin-devlin-perjury-lying-trial-wrongfully-convicted-man-anthony-wright/4144229/
The Trials of Walter Ogrod by Thomas Lowenstein
Chicago Review Press