This month on Criminal, it had turned into a full-scale phantom panic. A town is terrorized by a strange creature in white until one man decides to take matters into his own hands. It's the only case in English legal history where somebody has been shot dead mistaken as a ghost. And does the public understand that forensic DNA phenotyping is not considered valid signs?
Earlier this month, police in Edmonton, Canada, released a sketch of a suspect. The issue is, no one knows what the suspect looks like.
This episode was produced by Siona Peterous, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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