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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Kevin Pickett had been posting flyers around town

trying to locate his missing stepson, Corey Kaufman.

In his calendar day after day, he wrote, No Corey.

Now, weeks had gone by, and he was trying to explain to a Turlock detective

that his stepson had never before been gone this long.

Does he do any drugs?

Yeah.

Kaufman was a methamphetamine addict who roamed the town, scavenging for scrap metal.

He used to get some of the wire down up and down the road track.

It doesn't matter what Corey was doing, what Corey was about to do,

or what Corey did in the past. It doesn't matter.

Right. Okay. We want to find him.

Right. That's our goal here.

I'm one of the possibility he could be brain hurt or something

and don't know what the hell he's doing or where he's at.

Okay.

Corey Kaufman was a tenacious thief in his hometown here in California's Central Valley.

Thieves made enemies.

More than one had expressed a desire to do him harm.

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