07. The Bakersfield Three Trailer

When two friends go missing back-to-back, and in between their disappearances, a third friend is murdered, their mothers begin their own investigation. As the connections between the three cases are explored, the mothers navigate devastating twists and turns, including one revelation that shakes the community to its core. From reporter Olivia LaVoice who brought you "The Man with a Thousand Faces," you can now find the Bakersfield Three anywhere you get your podcasts.

Episode Transcript

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The first to go missing was Micah. I need to get an officer out
to my house because a woman thatwill not stop coming in the house.
That is your name. My nameis Micah. Two weeks after his disappearance,
his friend James was murdered. Hewas scared because he knew who shot
him. In two weeks after that, their friend Bailey seemingly vanished. She

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is legitimately missing, like gone offthe face of this earth. These three
people knew each other and they're alleither at this point dead or missing.
Their three mothers began connecting the dots. We had no proof of anything.
We just knew they were gone.Oh my god, this is bigger than
we thought it was. What wasuncovered was more devastating than anyone could have

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ever imagined. Thought that they werejust normal American couple, not knowing the
type of underground world that they wereliving and the things that they were doing.
They come off as very polite andwell mannered. But O cut your
throat before you came and dlink.And it's one of the few times in
my career where I've been warned,Hey, you don't want to dig too

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deep on this one. Kidnap torture, murder, and ultimately dismemberment. They
lived in a very great neighborhood,beautiful homes, nice people. That kind
of stuff doesn't happen here. Ohyes it does. And it's all connected
to these crowds of guns and ratesand everything else. There's something big about

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about what's going on. There's somethingsomething crazy about this case. You know.
I wouldn't chop up a friend ofmine, but I might cut up
all his leg I need to doeverything that he tells me to do,
and I need to do it now, and I need to do it best
because I don't I'm next. I'mtrying to be a good person. Okay,

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I want you to be a goodperson too. Yeah. I should
get a good person and just confessall of a sudden. I should just
come clean about everything. Just somebodytell me where they are, and we'll
go get them. I will godig, I will go Dick, and
I will find them. I gottafind her to hold her one last time,
even if it is just her bones. This is the Story of the

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Baker's Field three, available everywhere youget your podcasts. On November seventh,