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Malcolm Gladwell here.

This season on Revisionous History, we're going back to the spring of 1988 to a town in northwest Alabama,

where a man committed a crime that would spiral out of control.

And he said, I've been in prison 24, 25 years.

That's probably not long enough.

I didn't kill them.

From Revisionous History, this is The Alabama Murders.

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Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of I Heart Radio.

Hello and happy Friday.

I'm Tracy V. Wilson.

And I'm Holly Fry.

We had our second ever installment of eponymous diseases this week on Lyme disease, West Nile

virus, and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever.

I had a long, there's a longer list of tick and insect-borne diseases that are eponymous in some way.

And I didn't do this on purpose, but I wound up choosing three that are personally relevant to me.

Because I grew up in North Carolina, one of the states where Rocky Mountain spotted fever, is the most prevalent.

I now live in Massachusetts where there's a lot of Lyme disease, and also every year we start

having reports of West Nile virus, including detections of birds.

We, as a society, check where West Nile has happening by testing birds in a lot of cases.

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