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Welcome to Beyond Contempt True Crime.

I need to provide you with some background before we start the show.

Margaret Anderson's story changed my life and reshape my perception of the world around me.

The crimes against her took place right before my eighth birthday,

and I was 12 when the last criminal was convicted.

It was the first time I realized that not everyone has good intentions,

and terrible people exist.

Peer to speak with any of my high school classmates

or anyone who lived in Green Bay during that time, they might tell you a similar story.

This crime had such an impact on the community that many of us still think about it 35 years later.

People often find it difficult to pinpoint why they're interested in true crime.

This story is my true crime why.

I heavily leaned on Mike DuPlaise's book,

Torture at the Back 40. Because the crime took place in 1983, so there was little online source

material available. He did a great job of explaining who Margaret was as a person through

interviews with her friends and her family. At the time of the crime, all we heard about were the four perpetrators.

Mike's book gave her a voice, and hopefully that shows in this episode.

In this retelling, I don't want to dwell on the awful details of this crime,

but understand that we can't gloss over the brutality of this case,

because that's what sets it apart from the most violent crimes we hear about.

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