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Mar 2024
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True Crime Vault: Witness

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Who slaughtered a young military wife and two of her young daughters in her own home? And why was one toddler mysteriously spared? It’s a murder mystery that plays out over decades and comes to a surprise ending in a Carolina courtroom.


Originally broadcast on 09/17/2010

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