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Nov 2023
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Hollywood Secrets: The Mysterious Disapp...

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When LA   screenwriter Gary Devore mysteriously disappears in the summer of 1997, weird   coincidences lead family and friends to believe he may have been a victim of   foul play -- possibly because of his mysterious ties to the CIA. Gary was on   the way home from finishing his latest script, which was allegedly going to   be based in part on real events that occurred during the American invasion of   Panama, and that script vanished along with him and his vehicle. In Season 5   of Witnessed: Fade to Black, host Josh Dean — along with journalist Evan   Wright and producer Megan Donis — investigates one of the most infamous   missing person cases in Hollywood history.

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