The Town Center at Boca Raton should conjure up images of luxury designers and expensive restaurants but unfortunately for those local to the high-end mall, it is a string of abductions and brutal murders that remains in the forefront of many minds. When women and their children began getting abducted from the mall in 2007, locals to Boca Raton and around the country began asking, is anyone safe?
Chapters: 00:00 Welcome to the Dark Oak 7:54 The Boca Raton Mall Murders 56:33 The Ovarian Cancer Research AllianceSources:
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