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Oct 2016
36m 52s

Season 1, Episode 6: Stranger Danger

The New Yorker
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In the 1970s and early '80s, missing children weren't considered a policing priority. You couldn't even enter missing child information into the FBI's national crime database. But that changed quickly. 
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