American Dread: The Last Walk: The Billie Lee Boyce Story

American Hauntings Podcast by Cody Beck and Troy Taylor

Jul 1, 202620:43Society & Culture

Two days before Halloween in 1987, 13-year-old Billie Lee Boyce was found behind a garage in Springfield, Illinois. She had left home two nights earlier and said she would be back in about an hour. She never returned. He...

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