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Feb 2021
29m 7s

S3 Episode 1 - Grey

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Jody Gottlieb and David Payne team up again to investigate the unsolved death of federal prosecutor Jonathan Luna in 2003.  They talk with his friends and investigative reporters about Jonathan's life and its mysterious last six hours.

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