S5 Ep12: Christopher Hightower

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Oct 19, 202345:38Society & Culture

September 22nd, 1991. Guilford, Connecticut. Early that evening, a mysterious man visited the home of Christine Brendel and delivered some shocking news – her brother Ernest and his family had been kidnapped, and were be...

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