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July 15, 2025 60 mins

You might know Lois Duncan as the author of young adult suspense, thriller and horror novels. Lois was popular in the 1970’s and 1980’s with books like I Know What You Did Last Summer, Killing Mr. Griffin and Stranger with My Face. What you might not know is that Lois and her family would become caught up in a murder investigation over the death of her 18 year old daughter, Kaitlyn Arquette, that felt straight out of one of Lois’s books. 

 

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Sources for this episode:

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