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Mar 2022
34m 25s

The Girl In The Pole Yard — Sandy Beal E...

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For more than forty years, Kim Parmer has been haunted by the prospect that someone murdered her cousin, Sandy Beal, in 1977. Award-winning reporter Melissa Jeltsen investigates the mysterious death of a teenage girl in Prince George's County, Maryland. 

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  • The story that brought Kim to Melissa

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