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Nov 2024
35m 29s

David Ridgen

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Aaron spoke with David Ridgen, the host of Someone Knows Something, about the murder of Christine Harron in 1993. The case was mishandled and the suspect got away initially. Ridgen spent 15 years working on the case and it culminated in a documentary which brought the case back to life...

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