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Stolen Lives True Crime

261: Re-release: Jessica Small

Stolen Lives True Crime

Stolen Lives True Crime

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.1635 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The unsolved disappearance and presumed murder of Australian teenager, Jessica Small

This is a re-release with sped up audio and gaps of silence removed. I found this painful in editing it out so I appreciate you all listening back then when I was very new and still learning! Hopefully this will get more ears on the episode.

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dig it 5. Here on Stalin Lives, we discuss brutal and heartbreaking crimes against children.

1:48.2

Themes may include child murder, torture and sexual domestic and child abuse.

1:53.5

I do to my best to remain respectful for the babies in these stories and leave out unnecessary

1:58.3

details that honestly, none of us need to know to understand the

2:01.7

frustration of why and how this ever happened. However, if you find any of these themes triggering

2:07.6

this podcast may not be for you. Listener discretion is advised. Today's case is one of the most bungled cases we've ever looked into for stolen lives.

2:26.4

A young girl goes out for a night of dancing and arcade games with friends, but she never comes home.

2:32.8

And what we hear so many times, the police would write

2:35.9

the case off as a teen runaway situation. Witness statements would not be taken. Suspects would not

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