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incredibly honored. This little podcast that I still sometimes record episodes of in my closet has

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November 9th, 1929 in Dusseldorf, Germany.

The morning fog was just lifting when a group of police officers arrived at a factory building in the city's industrial district.

They didn't know exactly what they were looking for, but they had received a disturbing message

from the local paper just a few hours earlier. That's when a junior reporter was sitting at his

desk going through his mail, and he saw a letter that really stuck out to him. It was a hand-drawn

map that looked like it had been quickly scribbled down.

Someone had roughly sketched out an area in the industrial district, and they even labeled parts of the map with forest, meadow, field.

But at the bottom, written near a circle that was drawn around the factory, was one word that caused the reporter to phone the police. Murder. So the officers

were on the scene and they moved carefully through the area, eyes scanning the ground, expecting

the worst, when all of a sudden an officer screamed at the top of his lungs. He had found something

bad. There, face down in the weeds by an outer wall

of the factory, was the small body of five-year-old Gertrude Alberman. But it was when they

turned her over that all of the officers got a chill down their spines, and one of them even had to

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