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Sep 2023
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Episode 315 - Christian Gerhartstreiter:...

Wondery | RedHanded
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In 1994, in the back garden of a house on Lorain Road, San Marino, California – workers accidentally unearthed a shallow grave containing dismembered human remains.  Investigators were convinced that the discovery had something to do with a charming British man who’d lived at the property a decade before. Not only had he been a member of the British royal f ... Show More
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