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Jul 2020
52m 20s

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Phoebe Handsjuk

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When a young woman falls 12 floors down a garbage chute to her death only questions remain. Was it suicide? Was it an accident? Or could something more sinister happened to Phoebe Handsjuk?

 

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