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Dec 2021
42m 28s

The Barber’s Basement: Vernon Seitz

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A barber from Milwaukee was known by locals for taking an unusual interest in missing persons cases, especially those of children. What they didn’t know was that Vernon Seitz had a secret he’d been keeping for fifty years — one he’d kept under lock and key until confessing to his psychiatrist days before his death. He’d had a traumatic childhood experience o ... Show More
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