Episode 3: “The Skull in the Creek Bed”

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Mar 6, 202447:20Society & Culture

As the 1989 holiday season looms, Dana Stidham’s body is discovered by a local hunter in a Bella Vista creek bed. Law enforcement shifts its focus from missing person to murder… and begins to zero in on a suspect after h...

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