S9 E2 What the Bodies Revealed

Island Crime by Laura Palmer

Jun 5, 202641:39True Crime

In June 1959, newspapers pile up outside the Kostyniuk home in South Wellington until neighbours find the house ransacked, the phone line cut, and the bodies of Andrew “Curly” and Elizabeth “Lizzie” Kostyniuk in the bedr...

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