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Oct 2022
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Murder Mixtape 183: D'Wan Sims

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TRIGGER WARNINGS: child abuse/murder/kidnapping On December 11th, 1994, a security guard at the Wonderland shopping mall in Livonia, Michigan called the local police to alert them that they had a missing child. Four-year-old D’Wan Sims was reported missing by his mother, who said he was walking behind her, and when she looked back, he was gone. The immedi ... Show More
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