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May 2024
42m 21s

Rachel Hurley // 401

Dark West Productions
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In March of 1990, a 14-year-old girl went missing while walking alone through a wooded area near the beach in Jupiter, Florida. Just hours after her disappearance, her body was found in those very woods, murdered and assaulted, just weeks after a Ouija board told her and her friends that she would be the first of them to die. This is the story of Rachel Hurley.

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