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Dec 2021
55m 59s

218: Dateline: The Charleston Affair

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Keith Morrison in all his glory, this week, Fam! A wealthy Charleston banker and his wife are locked in a bitter divorce. One week before their divorce hearing, authorities find an ex-con in town who confesses he had been hired to kill one of them. Who was the mastermind behind the hit? And could it be stopped--even with the ex-con in custody, was it too late to stop the murder?

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