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Paper Ghosts: The Texas Teen Murders

'Are You Aware of the Ransom Calls?'

Paper Ghosts: The Texas Teen Murders

iHeartPodcasts

True Crime

4.36K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

For just a moment in 2013, there was a glint of hope that the remains of one of the missing girls had been discovered. For their families, it was a discovery that finally felt like there would be answers. As the investigation heats up, a new source comes forward and flips the entire investigation upside down.

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0:00.0

Just a few miles off the Thailand coast, the island of Kothau looks like a postcard.

0:07.0

I'd underneath the surface lies something sinister.

0:11.0

In the last 20 years dozens of tourists have died mysteriously on the island.

0:16.0

A dark cloud who's come over the island, death, mystery and danger.

0:23.0

Listen to Death Island every Wednesday on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:30.0

Paper Ghost is a production of I Heart Radio.

0:34.0

We're hoping that a family member, a friend, a neighbor or someone else will recognize this person

0:42.0

and come forward to investigators with information that will lead to the identity.

0:46.0

For just a moment in 2013, there was a glint of hope that the remains of one of the missing girls

0:52.0

had been discovered.

0:54.0

A 23-year-old college student looking to collect scrap metal for an art project

0:58.0

was walking through the woods near his home in Vernon when he came across a female skull and other human remains.

1:05.0

At first there was a strong belief among Vernon police that they could have belonged to either Janice Pocket, Lisa White or Debbie Speckler.

1:14.0

And for April White Folletti, Lisa White's sister, this discovery was the first time ever

1:20.0

that felt as though her sister was finally coming home.

1:24.0

In my heart, I never thought it was anybody else but Lisa.

1:28.0

It was too close to home.

1:30.0

I just had a gut feeling that it was my sister.

1:34.0

And all I wanted was at that point closure for myself, closure for my mom.

1:41.0

It was like a knife in my heart when we found out.

1:45.0

The remains were found in a rugged area that was once a town dump site.

1:49.0

It was an area not only close to where Lisa White lived, but where she had frequently hung out with friends.

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