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Nov 2023
43m 4s

Where There's Smoke

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Joliet, Illinois, fire fighters are shocked to find 28-year-old Melissa Plut strangled to death when they respond to a fire in her duplex. Police search the nurse's love life with no luck until a 9-1-1 call unmasks her killer hiding in plain sight.

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