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My name is James Wollner.

This is episode 13 of season 5, a better search for Barbara, an ongoing investigation into the disappearance of 15-year-old Barbara Louise Cotton,

last seen in Williston, North Dakota on April 11, 1988.

Hey, everybody, it's Thursday, May 6th, 2021, and I've decided to add a little update at the very

beginning of this episode.

I was all ready to publish it, but I'm going to drop this in here.

And I'm doing it a little bit differently.

I'm actually sitting outside in rural North Dakota, drinking a cup of coffee out in a pasture, basically, looking out at the open, wide open space.

And what I want to tell you is that I'm going to send in a tip to Williston PD, I've decided.

After I published this episode, I'm going to write a long email to them and tell them about something

I've been thinking about for a long time.

And unfortunately, I can't really tell you about it, but here's the gist of it.

Basically, you know, when we talk about mysteries like Barbara Cotton's, we talk about puzzles and finding pieces of the puzzle.

Actually, a better way of stating it is if we look at Barbara's disappearance as something

we need to unlock to find answers. I don't so much think that I found a key, but I think I know

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