American Dread: The Murdered Girl the Coroner Kept: The Louise Betts Story

American Hauntings Podcast by Cody Beck and Troy Taylor

Sep 9, 202628:19Society & Culture

In 1977, seventeen-year-old Louise Betts disappeared from Loves Park, Illinois. Months later, her remains were found in a rural Boone County field, and Curtis Brownell was eventually convicted of her brutal murder. But m...

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