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Sep 2019
29m 31s

Mrs. Sherlock Holmes

VOX MEDIA PODCAST NETWORK
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In 1917, 18-year-old Ruth Cruger disappeared. She’d last been seen getting her ice skates sharpened in the motorcycle shop of a man named Alfredo Cocchi. Newspapers reported that she probably ran off with a boyfriend, and New York police said that there were no clues to go on. But an investigator named Grace Quackenbos Humiston decided that she would do what ... Show More
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