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Welcome to True Crime Brewery, I'm Jill. And I'm Dick.

Carla Brown was 22 years old back in 1978.

After five years of an off and on relationship,

she and her fiance Mark bought their first home together.

So that June, the couple were really focused on moving and decorating their new home.

They had some friends over to help with the move on June 20th,

followed by an evening of food and drinks.

Next door at the home of Paul Maine,

the pretty and outgoing Carla had not gone unnoticed

as she carried boxes into her home.

Join us at the quiet end for finding Carla Brown's killer.

Carla's fiance Mark went to work on June 21st, leaving Carla home alone.

Between 10 and 11 a.m. Carla ended a phone call with her future mother-in-law telling her

that someone was at the door.

By the time Mark returned home that day,

Carla would be the victim of a brutal murder and she would become the focus of a

lengthy and complex investigation.

So this happened in Illinois, Dickie.

So since it's Illinois, I've got to choose a beer from one of my favorite brewing companies, Goose Island in Chicago.

And they make a stout called Bourbon County

brand Stout, and they have a bunch of varieties of it. So this is Bourbon County

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