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Thank you for joining me for today's episode of Once Upon a Crime.

We're in the series Last Dance,

where I tell you stories about crimes that were committed on prom night.

In this episode, a team is accused of committing a terrible crime

for the sole reason that he'd been forbidden by his father

to attend his high school prom.

To investigators, Jeff Pelley was clearly guilty,

but there was much more to this story,

and it would take years before the case would finally be resolved.

Even then, questions would linger.

There's a lot to unravel in this story,

so this will be one of the rare two-part episodes

you occasionally hear on Once Upon a Crime.

If you don't want to wait to hear part two,

you can join Patreon and get the second part early.

I'll give more details on how you can join at the end of the episode.

This is part one of the case of Jeff Pelley and the prom night murder.

In August 2002,

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