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Nov 2017
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Episode 17 – The Town That Got Away With...

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About this episode
This is the story about a small town in rural Missouri, that’s been hiding a very big secret…for close to 40 years. A small town that bound themselves tightly together in solidarity in order to eliminate a monstrous problem.

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Music Credits:
Kevin Mcleod -Lightless Dawn
Kai Engel - Soli
Kai Engel- Daedalus
Scott Gratton - Forward Motion
Dexter Britain - Telling Stories
Dexter Britain - Lost in Light
Sergey Cheremisinov - Lucerna
Sergey Cheremisinov - Don't Lie To InnerChild
Sergey Cheremisinov - The Signals
Kevin McLeod - On the Shore
Kai Engel - Scenery Kai Engel - Run
Kai Engel - Aspirato Kai Engel - Shinedown
All SFX provided by www.freesfx.co.uk

All music is used under an Attribution License - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/
The Funkoars – Feel The Madness
Used with Permission - http://goldenerarecords.com.au/ge/funkoars

Books:
In Broad Daylight & Behind the Story of In Broad Daylight by Harry MacLean - Available on Amazon

Author Harry MacLean New York Times bestseller and Edgar Award winner, turns to fiction: The Joy of Killing, a psychological thriller.
www.HarryMacLean.com
www.Facebook.com/HarryNMacLean 

Unsolved Child Murders by Emily Thompson - available for pre-order on Amazon, Waterstones, BookDepository and Barnes and Noble.

Special Thanks: 
Emily Thompson author of Unsolved Child Murders 
Brooke Blank from The Fall Line podcast 
Erica Kelly from the Southern Fried True Crime podcast 
Harry MacLean author of In Broad Daylight & The Story Behind In Broad Daylight
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