It was a gruesome discovery. Kind of the last thing law was widening an interstate here

in Vernon, Connecticut would have ever thought they'd come upon. But it certainly answers

some questions in the local disappearances of four young women.

You've seen them tack to telephone polls on the internet plastered on billboards, the

missing.

I pray every day that we find these so we can go on.

The murdered.

She always told my mom on the 21st birthday, I'm coming by the house, I'm going to be

streaking. You watch.

I'm never came. I'm never came.

Unsolved cold cases.

Jesus, Mary and Josephine, I hope that's not a grave for many.

A faded photograph on a piece of paper. The only thread of hope left.

Paper ghosts.

I'm Ann Muleum Phelps, an investigative journalist, true crime author and host of paper

ghosts.

A new investigative podcast from I Heart Radio. For more than a decade, I've been searching

for the person or person's responsible for the abductions and probable murders of

four missing girls in my New England hometown.

For over 50 years, each case has remained unsolved. I've spoken to anyone even remotely

involved, friends, family, neighbors, detectives, suspects, you name it.

But it wasn't until this past year that things took an unexpected turn. And after 11 years

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