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August 22, 2024 75 mins

S2E3: On a brisk October's night in 1927, the smell of rain in the air, a fashionable young lady had recently arrived in the city of Minneapolis to attend college for piano.  After finishing a long night attending to a party at the Jolly Peasant Tea Rooms, a job she had aquired only days before, she headed home.  She stepped off the streetcar, just after midnight, with a mysterious young man and was never seen alive again.  This century old mystery has never been solved.  Listen to the facts of the case and see if you can determine who killed Pearl Osten.

All information told on Twisted Roots, including quotes and testimony, is taken directly from original source documentation such as newspaper articles, court records, census records, vital records (birth/marriage/death), WW1 & WW2 Draft registrations, other military records, city directories, social security administration records, voter registrations, probate records, ship manifests, immigration records, land records, etc, etc, etc.

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Theme music: "Forever Yours", original vocals and piano tracks produced by Arthouse Acoustics, with additional original tracks and mixing by Tyrai Lawton

Background music: "Eerily Calm Horror Ambience" by EerilyCalm, Creative Commons License, released 1 Jun 2021

Written, Recorded, and Edited by Dale Sheldon.

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