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🗓️ 25 January 2023
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When a young college student’s car was found stranded on the side of a busy Illinois highway in 1992, police figured it was a runaway case. Nine days later, she was found brutally murdered, nearly 500 miles away in another state. What happened to Tammy Jo Zywicki? Hear the story when PAPER GHOSTS returns with a new season on February 1.
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0:00.0 | I want this not to be about a pretty co-ed who got murdered. |
0:08.1 | That can't be the story. |
0:10.2 | The story has to be about a real person. |
0:15.5 | In the final weeks of summer, 1992, Tammy Zawicki was getting ready to start her senior |
0:21.3 | year of college. |
0:22.9 | Tammy was always there for a laugh. |
0:25.7 | She wasn't judgmental. |
0:27.0 | She was a very fun, adventurous person who was open to new experiences. |
0:32.6 | She was tough and just really resilient. |
0:36.2 | The 21-year-old set off on a multi-day cross-country drive headed west from her home in suburban |
0:43.0 | New Jersey to Grinnell College in Iowa. |
0:47.4 | While passing through Illinois, something went wrong. |
0:51.3 | My mom won 83 per car quit. |
0:54.3 | And she disappeared. |
0:55.3 | Tammy's supposed to be on campus and she's not here and people are starting to get worried. |
1:02.1 | I'm Emuelian Phelps, an investigative journalist, true crime author of more than 40 books and |
1:08.0 | the host of paper ghosts. |
1:10.9 | This season, I'm investigating the mysterious disappearance and brutal murder of Tammy Zawicki. |
1:17.0 | They just kept telling us from the beginning, she'll be back. |
1:21.4 | He said, don't say anything. |
1:22.9 | I just want you to listen. |
1:24.9 | I found a body in Missouri. |
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