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This episode contains stories involving violence against children. Listener discretion is advised.

He had asked us if it was a girl, if we would take her, if we would take her and raise her as our own.

I started getting phone calls and, you know,

Lily wants a baby back.

She changed her mind and I said, well,

that's not an option anymore.

All I remember of that night were Jimbo's words.

If you don't give her back to Lillian, you'll know what it's like to lose one of your own.

He put the baby on the phone and I just hear her screaming and crying and crying, you know, calling Mama,

Mama, Mama.

This was an upper middle class Long Island neighborhood where the homes were luxury homes.

There's no crime. That's why everybody wants to come and leave out here.

Toward the rear there is a 22 by 24 foot crawl space. He crawled all the way to the back of the crawl space. He saw the barrel.

I saw what appeared to be a human hand and a foot.

There are over 100,000 cold cases in America. Only 1% are ever solved.

This is one of those rare stories.

It's October 9, 1990, in Orm Ranch, Arizona.

Alan Kessler is a rancher responsible for 600 head of cattle on a 26,000-acre ranch.

In 1990, his son, J.B. is five years old.

About an hour into their day, Alan Kessler's horse pulls up before a shallow ravine.

Alan looks down and notices a dark object lying among the rocks.

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