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The Suspicious Death of Nicole Parsons-Bucki (Rhode Island)
On a morning when the country’s attention was fixed on unimaginable tragedy, a Rhode Island family was learning that someone they loved was gone.
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The Suspicious Death of Nicole Parsons-Bucki (Rhode Island)
On a morning when the country’s attention was fixed on unimaginable tragedy, a Rhode Island family was learning that someone they loved was gone.
The Murder of Michael Cochran (Maine)
On an ordinary winter night in 1981, danger was moving through the Bangor, Maine area in three different directions at once. A barroom dispute was followed by a deadly blaze. A drug sting was underway at a nearby apartment complex. And a few miles away, a lakeside cabin would be reduced to smoldering rubble before sunrise.
The last people known to be with her gave conflicting accounts. Her family believed the investigation lost precious time. And as the years passed, searches kept returning to the same narrow stretch of land, the same handful of names, and the same possibility that someone had been carrying the truth all along.
After decades of searches, whispers and shifting loyalties, someone still knows where to find her. And it’s time to speak up.
The Disappearance of Melanie Melanson (Massachusetts)
In a small New England city, a teenager disappeared after a night in the woods, and almost immediately, the story of what happened fractured.
The last people known to be with her gave conflicting accounts. Her family believed the investigation lost precious time. And as the years passed, searches kept returning to the same narrow stretch of land, the same handful of names, and the same possibility that someone had been carrying the truth all along.
After decades of searches, whispers and shifting loyalties, someone still knows where to find her. And it’s time to speak up.
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