Introducing Paper Ghosts

Four girls go missing, all within miles from one another in neighboring New England towns. And not one arrest is made. Fifty years later, the search for answers is reignited when a call reveals new information that sets the investigation in motion.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
He was a gruesome discovery, kind of the last thing
loggers widening an interstate here in Burning, Connecticut we ever
thought they'd come upon. But it certainly answers some questions
in the local disappearances of four young women. You've seen
them tack to telephone poles, on the internet, plastered on billboards,

(00:27):
the missing. I pray every day that we find these
a so we can go on the murdered. She always
told my mom on a twenty one birthday, I'm coming
by to us. I'm gonna be streaking you watch. She
never came. She never came. Unsolved cold cases Jesus Marion

(00:48):
Josephina helped us out of grave for many A faded
photograph on a piece of paper, the only thread of
hope left. Paper Ghosts, I'm in William Phelps, an investigative journalist,
true crime author, and host of Paper Ghosts, a new

(01:10):
investigative podcast from my Heart Radio. For more than a decade,
I've been searching for the person or persons responsible for
the abductions and probable murders of four missing girls in
my New England hometown. For over fifty years, each case
has remained unsolved. I've spoken to anyone even remotely involved, friends, family, neighbors, detectives, suspects,

(01:36):
you name it. But it wasn't until this past year
that things took an unexpected turn, and after eleven years
of investigating a breakthrough, now immediately it just sat on
the floor like somebody just punched me in the gut.
And then the tears just came in. Came in, came

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answers to decades old questions. In some closure, these families
have been searching for the shirts he wore, the cherry
to the Backshope, I know that that's the person that
was there. I can describe what he's wearing. I can
smell him a mile away. Every day is like being
lost in Gimbo. Coming soon, Paper Ghosts. Get it on

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