Deadly Cold War foes.

Generals clamoring for attack.

Political ambitions and fantasies.

What brings a world to the brink of destruction?

And more importantly, what brings it back?

Max Hastings' gripping new book, Abyss, the Cuban Missile Crisis,

1962, tells the amazing story of the 13 days that shook the world.

Abyss by Max Hastings. Out now in all good bookshops.

This episode involves descriptions of domestic violence. It may be triggering to some listeners, and this

episode may not be for everyone. Listener discretion is advised.

August 27, 1991, Cambridge, Ohio.

17-year-old Robin Stone told her mother she was going to her best friend's home to study,

and she would return home in an hour.

But she never did return home, and her mother would never see her beloved daughter alive again.

Robin's heavily decomposed body, along with the body of her unborn baby boy,

would be found by Deer Hunter's four months later, the victims of an apparent homicide.

Robbins' family would spend the next 30 years fighting for justice. But was her killer closer than anyone

thought? This is Robin's story. Robin Stone was seven months pregnant when she went missing

on August the 27th, 1991. It was her first day of senior year of high school. She came home

from school, got an urgent call,

walked out of her house for the last time,

and she was never heard from again.

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