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May 2024
40m 17s

Leticia Martinez-Cosman // 405

Dark West Productions
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In March of 2023, a 58-year-old woman headed to a Seattle Mariners game with a man she had met at Costco two weeks prior. But after enjoying their date, even snapping a photo together in the stands, she went missing. When the following day brought strange text messages sent from her phone, and a report that her son had been abducted from his bed, investigators started to piece together a disturbing puzzle. This is the murder of Leticia Martinez-Cosman.

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