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Feb 2024
41m 10s

Lena Chapin // 379

Dark West Productions
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In 1999, a Missouri teenager’s stepfather disappeared. Four years later, in February of 2003, she told her uncle that her mother had murdered him and burned his body. Then, she disappeared herself. This is the story of Lena Chapin, and Gary McCullough.

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