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10. Lifelines

Lost Hills: Dark Canyon

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The Strange Case of Fred Raylor

The case against Fred Raylor, in spite of all that scientific evidence, was largely circumstantial. If you looked at it one way, Fred was a victim of unfathomably bad luck. Looked at another way, the authorities' way, Fred's a devious and malicious killer. From that point of view, it's no coincidence that people close to him kept drowning. He was drowning them. But that's the thing about circumstantial evidence. It doesn't look the same to everyone. The first time I went up into the hayloft in Colorado, I saw something really strange. You're looking at a kiddie pool with... there's a skeleton in

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