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Thank you so much for listening. You're doing, D da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da. Going into this season, I told myself, I need to step out of my comfort zone and do whatever

I can within my legal and own moral bounds to help find the truth about what happened

to Florence O'pialic.

All roads led to a man with the nickname Oregon John.

He's got a very bad rap sheet, charges that include assault, sexual assault, and cruelty to animals.

And as far as we know, Oregon John is the last person to have seen flow alive.

In an effort to find the truth, I catfished Oregon John on Facebook, pretending to be someone else.

Our conversations on Facebook Messenger eventually led to an in-person meeting at a bar in

Ketchikan, Alaska.

I met John face-to-face, and pretended I was somebody else.

And over the course of about two hours we learned details

that in my mind seemed to paint John as an even more suspicious character.

He had a bad answer for everything in his own tall tales about how Flo was murdered by another man and put inside a barrel under a meth dealer's house and gnome.

Was John actually telling the truth?

If he was, he made no effort in telling the authorities this. Something pretty basic to do, especially if you were considered a suspect.

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