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My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

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The Ouija Board and Dorothea Turley

Dorothea was crowned the quote American Venus in 1916 because her body proportions perfectly matched those of the famous Venus to Milo statue. She meets this dude Ernest Turley who's a navy man and they end up for some reason in rural Arizona. Dorothea becomes obsessed with it when she finds some stones in the backyard that have mysterious markings on them, which were likely pictographs made by the indigenous people who lived on the land in the past. So she convinces Ernest to buy dynamite based on what the Ouija board told her and he starts blowing up the rocks looking for this gold. While he's blowing up his backyard, searching for gold that never turns up, Dorothe

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