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Jun 2
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UPDATE: Kimberly Doss

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After a fourteen-year-old goes missing from her boyfriend’s home in Iowa in 1980, her mother puts all the pressure she can on police to take her daughter’s case seriously and bring her home.

  • If you or anyone you know has any information about the disappearance of Kimberly Doss, please contact Davenport PD at 563-326-7979 or call Quad City CrimeStoppers at 309-762-9500 to leave an anonymous tip.
     

This episode is an update to our original coverage of Kimberley's case in the episode MISSING: Runaway Train Kids, where we featured her story alongside six other missing children.

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