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Feb 2022
43m 39s

Heartless in the Heartland

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The tiny town of Boonville, Missouri is devastated when the body of eight-year-old Alyssa Owen is found near a rural country road. When another body turns up six weeks later, investigators soon learn that the senseless brutality of this double homicide.


Season 1, Episode 16 originally aired on ID on September 1, 2011.


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