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An Old Silver Bracelet Left in Maple Hollow Solves a Ten Year Disappearance
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Saint Mary Hospital Delivery Led to a Seven PM Call from the Police
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A Highway Receipt Written in Crayon Changes Three Lives on Route Forty-One
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Husband Leaves Wife on Highway Thirty-Seven Miles from Home in Storm
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Sixteen Years after He Disappeared My Twin Sons Met Him at College
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An Expensive Designer Dress Can Not Buy Back a Lost Heart
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William Edwards Leaves His Screaming Son on a Friday Afternoon in Hartford
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