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Episode 3: “The Skull in the Creek Bed”
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Episode 3: “The Skull in the Creek Bed”

Paper Ghosts: The Texas Teen Murders

March 6, 202447m 20sExplicit

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Show Notes

As the 1989 holiday season looms, Dana Stidham’s body is discovered by a local hunter in a Bella Vista creek bed. Law enforcement shifts its focus from missing person to murder… and begins to zero in on a suspect after he is arrested for a bizarre theft. Phelps’s contemporary, real-time investigation branches out and he questions whether the evidence against the chief suspect supports law enforcement’s push to arrest him – and whether Dana’s case is part of a more widespread series of murders by a serial killer targeting victims throughout the Ozarks during the late 1980’s and early 1990’s.

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paper ghostsmissingmurderconspiracyinvestigationforensicscold casethe ozarksmissouridana stidhamm william phelpsinvestigative journalisttrue crime