One ordinary afternoon in Cleveland, a desperate mom embarked on a journey to regain custody of her son. She vanished without a trace. Within a year, two more teenage girls would disappear along the same streets, held captive behind the same locked door. Before the world hailed a “Miracle in Cleveland,” the nightmare began here. In Part 1, we trace how Michelle Knight’s fight for her son led her straight to Ariel Castro - and how, one by one, Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus joined her inside the Seymour Avenue house no one dared to question.

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- Authentic stories as detailed by Michelle Knight in her book - "Finding Me"

- Trauma-informed narration - no sensationalism

- Insight on systemic failures that allowed Castro to hide in plain sight

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Welcome to July, where GIRL POWER reigns supreme.

We kick off this month's new block with the story of two evening bike rides along a popular Phoenix canal that ended in horror. 22-year-old Angela Brosso was found decapitated in November 1992, and 17-year-old Melanie Bernas was pulled from the water ten months later.

For more than two decades the “Phoenix Canal Killings” froze the city in fear while the killer slipped through the cracks. That is until world-renowned forensic genealogist, Dr. Colleen M. Fitzpatrick took a tiny Y-DNA profile, searched public genealogy databases, and surfaced one game-changing clue: the surname...“Miller.” That single word cut a list of thousands of suspects down to six - placing Bryan Patrick Miller squarely in investigators’ crosshairs. What investigators discover is a shocking, decades-long trail of carnage, committed by a sadistic cosplayer who called himself, "The Zombie Hunter."

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In this compelling episode, Ed and Melissa welcome Det. Kurt Mehl of the Charlotte County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Unit for a candid conversation about his career, the wildest cases he's worked, and his time spent hunting the monsters behind the 2001 murder of 19-year-old Punta Gorda, FL resident, Tara Sidarovich.

🎙️ Don’t miss this insightful conversation with a man who’s seen the worst of humanity and will never stop fighting for the truth, no matter how cold the trail gets.

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