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I'm Kate Winkler Dawson. I'm a journalist who's spent the last 25 years writing about true crime. And I'm Paul Holtz, a retired cold case investigator who's worked some of America's most complicated

cases and solved them.

Each week I present Paul with one of history's most compelling true crimes.

And I weigh in using modern forensic techniques to bring new insights to old mysteries.

Together using our individual expertise, we're examining historical true crime cases through a 21st century lens.

Some are solved and some are cold.

Very cold.

This is buried bones. The Hey Kate, how are you today?

I'm well, Paul, how are you today?

I'm well, Paul, how are you doing?

I am doing good.

What's been going on?

Well, I think we're going to jump right into this two-parter.

I don't even have time to tell you how things are going things are fine

how about that. Okay. That's the short answer. Things are great. Let's move on.

Sounds good. Okay so you remember last week I left you with this case of Captain Joseph White, who was an 82 year old man, murdered in 1830 Salem, Massachusetts.

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