It's hard to imagine losing a loved one, a wife, a husband, a child.

For many, it's their biggest fear.

Amarissa Jones, host of The Vanished.

A podcast that tells the stories of often overlooked and unsolved missing persons cases,

in an effort to uncover the truth.

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This story contains adult content and language,

along with references to sexual assault.

Listener discretion is advised.

It just does the same thing like a happy house.

I think that that's the assumption that unmarried daughters mostly lived in the same family home.

And that I think that that became an incredibly tense place for the household.

That there's something about it that people understand to be not working.

I mean, partly of course, Lizzie Borden is notoriously frank and tells people that she thinks her

step-mother's to be good for nothing person.

And you know, tells the sort of people that she shouldn't be talking to like that, like the

dressmaker, for example, not just a close friend.

I'm Kate Winkler-Dawson, a nonfiction author and journalism professor in Austin, Texas.

I'm also the host of the Historical True Crime Podcast,

Tenfold War Wicked, on exactly right.

I've traveled around the world interviewing people for the show.

I've interviewed some people in person and some from my home studio over Zoom.

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