Hi, crime junkies. I'm your host, Ashley Flowers, and I'm Brett. And I actually have multiple

stories for you today, all of which involve the disappearances of young girls and women

in the Vernon, Tallland area of Connecticut in the late 60s and early 70s. And although

the cases might seem unrelated at first, a few key similarities make it difficult to ignore

the possibility that these disappearances are all the work of the same person or persons.

Despite a long list of victims, three are often grouped together. But whether they're

connected by circumstance or something more sinister is anyone's guess. And this all

starts with the story of Janice Pocket, Lisa White, and Debbie Spickler, all known as

the Vernon, Tallland 3.

Catherine Pocket is having a typical low-key July summer day. She and her two daughters

have just gotten back to their home in Tallland, Connecticut after picking up some groceries.

And in typical sibling fashion, as Catherine is unloading the groceries, this huge

fight breaks out between 6-year-old Mary and 7-year-old Janice. They start bickering,

which turns into this full-blown screaming match over a toothbrush. As a big sister and

a mom, this feels so real. Yes, I've fought with my sister over less. And basically,

Catherine had let them each choose their own toothbrush while they were out getting groceries

and apparently they'd gotten them mixed up because now they're screaming at each other

over like, who's his who's. Anyway, eventually the whole toothbrush debacle resolves, and again,

typical sibling fashion, the girls move on like nothing ever happened. And that's when Janice

asks her mom if she can go out on her own and get this like, butterfly that she had found

a few days ago. According to a podcast titled Paper Ghosts by investigative journalist

M. William Phelps, who did a ton of reporting on this case, they'd apparently come across

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