A young mother's mysterious death and her son's subsequent kidnapping blow open a decades-long mystery about the woman's true identity and the murderous federal-fugitive at the center of it all.

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359: Girl in the Picture

True Crime Obsessed

Terrifying School Kidnapping Incident and FBI Involvement

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