This is an our Americana podcast network production sponsored by Podbean.

Before we start the show, I want to tell you about the last stone by Mark Bowden, which

is a phenomenal new book that, much like True Crime Bullshit, captures both the pathos

and the ethos of crime in America, through the exploration of two missing girls.

For 40 years, the mystery of what happened to the lion's sisters, who disappeared in

1975 from a shopping mall in suburban DC, haunted an entire community, including journalist

Mark Bowden, who covered the story as a cub reporter.

The last stone Chronicles marks return to the crime to cover the extraordinary effort

by authorities to bring their kidnapper to justice, and to try to answer the question

he could never shake.

Who would commit such a crime?

And why?

When the girls vanished on March 25, 1975, shock, and then grief spread throughout the

community.

As a massive police effort found nothing.

The investigation was shelved and the mystery endured.

Then in 2013, a cold-case squad detective found something he and a generation of detectives

before him had missed.

It pointed them toward a man named Lloyd Welch, then serving time for child molestation

in Delaware.

Over months of intense questioning and extensive investigation of Welch, as well as his sprawling,

sinister, appellation clan, four skilled detectives learned to sift truth from determined

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