There's one person who's been a recurring theme in our inboxes since the release of

this series.

He's the person of interest we actually know the least about.

A modern day ghost.

No social media presence, no phone number, no criminal record, no spouser kids, and he's

the only person brother still alive today.

This is episode 18, our lingering obsession.

I first told you guys about the Parsons Brothers back in episodes 12 and 13 when I had my whiteboard

revelation and we realized that Nelson had been confusing the lemon and the Parsons families

during our conversations with him.

Once we unpacked all of that and made a family tree, we realized that there were at least

four Parsons brothers who would have been young men in their late teens or early 20s

back when Darlene was murdered.

Three of those brothers showed up in the case file in the first few days after Darlene's

abduction.

They were subjects of tips from the public, mostly people claiming the police sketch looked

like them.

Also, it's clear the locals knew about the infamous buried bus at the Parsons property,

which is very close to the whole house.

It seems like the boys had a reputation for running around that area and maybe one or

two of them were rumored to have been associated with the marijuana patch right behind the

whole house.

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