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Listener discretion is advised. Oh, She was very much the all-American girl next door, everyone's sweetheart.

I think that's why it's still alive.

This many years we all just, we wanted closure, we wanted resolution, we wanted justice for her and her family. Oh, The mid-1970s were a turbulent time for the United States. Society had been rapidly changing for many years.

The Vietnam War was, at that point, condemned by a clear majority of Americans who had realized its futility and the exorbitant cost of the destruction of human life that it wreaked.

Crime was out of control.

Drugs were pouring into the country. In 1974, the war waging

in Southeast Asia was winding down. Most American soldiers leaving Vietnam had a tough time readjusting to life back in the States.

Some of them struggled with emotional problems, physical injuries, drug addiction,

or any combination of these from their time in Vietnam.

Many returned home unable to find jobs due to the recession that was brought on by an oil crisis,

a crashing stock market, high unemployment, and high inflation.

Violent crime had become an epidemic.

1974, in fact, was the second highest year for homicide and non-negligent manslaughter on record in the United

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