Hi, this is Christopher Gafford.

I'm at work putting together a new narrative series set to drop in the fall.

In the meantime, I wanted to reintroduce you to the Trials of Frank Carson,

the story of a criminal defense attorney who was put on trial for murder.

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Music Thanks for listening, and please rate and subscribe. This is Christopher Gaffer, the writer and host of The Trials of Frank Carson.

I'm here with Los Angeles Times Deputy Metro editor Steve Clow,

and we're going to talk about episode two of our podcast. Welcome, Steve.

Thank you, Chris. Episode two, a disappearance. We learned more about what happened to Cory

Kaufman and how the authorities came to begin to probe deeply into who might have been

attached to his disappearance. Yeah, here is how Chief Assistant District Attorney Marlisa Ferreira, who would prosecute the case,

described Corey Kaufman to me.

So this wasn't a kid who had been a tweaker all his life.

This was a really good kid that all of his teachers said nice things about.

If you went and you got Turlock teachers to talk

about who he was or people that knew him as a child or as a teenager, they all say he was the nicest

kid in the world, he'd give you the shirt off his back. At this point in the story, he's still a

missing person, though by the end of the episode, they will have found his bones. And in this

episode, we hear from Kevin Pickett,

who's Cori Kaufman's stepdad, and he's struggling to figure out when exactly his stepson

disappeared. Pickett would have trouble keeping his date straight to the great frustration of the

investigators. He produced a receipt from Modesto Junk Company on 9th Street.

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