S9 E1 They Should Have Felt Safe

Island Crime by Laura Palmer

May 29, 202639:06True Crime

In the summer of 1959, Andrew and Elizabeth Kostyniuk, known to everyone in South Wellington, BC, as Curly and Lizzie, were stabbed to death in their own home. The case was never solved, and for 67 years, their names fad...

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