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Dec 12
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Episode 332

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In August 2000, eighteen-year-old Jessica Currin was found burned behind a middle school in Mayfield, Kentucky. The case went cold until a determined homemaker named Susan Galbreath decided she could solve it herself. Against all odds, she did what police couldn’t: she found witnesses, uncovered leads, and helped to deliver a conviction.

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