The Dead Butterfly
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09/09/20 • 35 min
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Janice Pockett was only 7 years old when she went missing during the summer of 1973. She had been given permission for the first time to ride her bike alone, so she made her way down the dirt road near her family’s home. As she turned the corner, it was the last time anybody ever saw her again. For decades, the case has remained unsolved. It was not until recently, when a new piece of information turns the case upside down and shifts the investigation in an entirely new direction.
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Janice Pockett was only 7 years old when she went missing during the summer of 1973. She had been given permission for the first time to ride her bike alone, so she made her way down the dirt road near her family’s home. As she turned the corner, it was the last time anybody ever saw her again. For decades, the case has remained unsolved. It was not until recently, when a new piece of information turns the case upside down and shifts the investigation in an entirely new direction.
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Introducing Paper Ghosts
Four girls go missing, all within miles from one another in neighboring New England towns. And not one arrest is made. Fifty years later, the search for answers is reignited when a call reveals new information that sets the investigation in motion.
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‘I Wish It Was You That Was Dead'
One year after Janice Pockett went missing in Tolland, CT, another young girl was abducted just a few miles from where Janice was last seen. Lisa Joy White was 13 when she suddenly vanished on her way home from a friend's house in 1974. Early belief was that Lisa ran away. Police believed her friend knew what happened. Now, for the first time, Lisa's friend is telling her side of the story.
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Paper Ghosts: The Ozarks - The Dead Butterfly
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Paper Ghosts is a production of I Heart Radio. If you lived anywhere near New England in the early to mid nineteen seventies, the name's Debbie Spickler, Janice Pocket, and Lisa Joy White were synonymous with a ghost stalking the area. Girls walking, playing, talking to family and friends, one minute, moments later gone, one after the other. From nineteen six to ninety, young girls vanished from Tolland County, Connecticut, in the quiet farming t
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