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Jun 2025
33m 46s

S33 E4: Cash for Bodies | Calls From a K...

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The country is shocked to learn that a serial killer has been paid by the police - $100,000 in return for the locations of his murder victims. 


Even as decades have passed, opinions are split on this controversial deal. Was Clifford Olson rewarded for his heinous crimes, or was this necessary to stop the killing? And what do the architects of the deal think about it today?

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