Maybe your stamps are on the table next to the birthday card you forgot to send.

Or in that random drawer full of pens, pennies and paperclips.

Or stuck to your fridge behind a do-list and a magnet from Malaga.

Or maybe just maybe, then neatly placed in a completely sensible spot.

After the 31st of January 2023, regular stamps without a barcode will no longer be valid.

So if you know where your old ones are, this is your last chance to use them up.

Or you can swap them.

For more info visit RoyalMail.com slash barcoded stamps.

The following episode examines a case involving the disturbing murder and dismemberment of a 13-year-old

child. There will also be mentions of sexual assault. While case facts are delivered in a

clinical and restrained manner, some listeners may find these details disturbing.

Listener discretion is advised.

On a hot late summer day in August of 2005, a family outboating on the little Calumant River

just outside of Chicago made the horrifying discovery of human remains.

Not long after, police divers pulled the dismembered torso from the water.

The arms, legs and head had been severed, making identification a difficult task,

but one detective already had an idea of who it might be.

13-year-old Alexandra Anaya was a sweet, kind, loving and athletic teenager who disappeared

three days earlier from just across the state line, in Hammond, Indiana.

D.I. tests would later confirm the horrible truth.

And while Alex's family struggled to accept the horrors of reality, investigators began their

hunt for the monster who had perpetrated this particularly heinous and vicious crime.

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