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And be nice to locate her. I mean, we have an eight-year-old, a girl who's crying looking for her mom. Mom will call her mom. It can't contact nothing.

And I mean, it's just a little dirty kid to have shitty fathers who are new contact with them. And you know, it's just messed up.

In the quiet little town of Reddick, Florida, things had taken a sinister turn when a dedicated mother of two failed the show at first shift at the local iron skillet.

It was the day after Valentine's Day and Heather Strong never missed a day of work, at least now without calling.

As days passed, Heather's absence only added to the mounting concerns of those who knew and loved her.

Ten agonizing days later, a family member finally reported her missing. As the search began, investigators would eventually uncover a dark and unsettling truth.

One that pointed to a dangerous love triangle at the heart of Heather's disappearance.

Join me now, as we take a journey into a dark corner of a small town and the tragic events that unfolded there.

You'll hear a tale of Love Gone Wrong and the disastrous consequences of jealousy, deception and betrayal.

A story that will leave you questioning the very nature of human relationships and the lengths people would go to satisfy the desires.

There's a familiar scene we've all seen played out time and time again in movies and TV.

You've got your classic kingpin or headhunt show of some criminal enterprise that gets thrown behind bars, but even in prison, he's still pulling the strings.

And with his connections in the underworld, he's able to orchestrate a hit on the outside, using some unsuspecting henchmen to do his dirty work.

And it's almost always for one or two reasons, either to settle a score or to silence a potential witness.

But that's just in the movies, right? It doesn't actually ever happen in the real world, or does it?

Well, what if the person who's trying to hire the hitman isn't a well-connected criminal mastermind? Instead, he's just some average Joe.

This was exactly the case back in the late 1990s, for a man named David Vignoli's, who was trying to figure out the answer to that very question, from behind the cold steel bars of a jail cell in Marion County, Florida.

After being arrested, David knew he was about to be sent away to prison for a long, long time.

He also knew that eyewitness testimony was the only evidence that could be possibly used against him.

That meant if he made the witnesses disappear, he couldn't make the charges disappear. But in David's case, there wasn't just one witness willing to testify against him.

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