Introducing: Paper Ghosts
America's Crime Lab
iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope
4.8 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Hey, Women of Juarez listeners! The newest season of another true crime pod, Paper Ghosts, is live. Go check out the beginning of Season 3!”
About Paper Ghosts: When a young college student’s car was found stranded on the side of a busy midwest highway in 1992, police figured it was a runaway case. Nine days later, she was found brutally murdered, nearly 500 miles away. In season 3 of PAPER GHOSTS, investigative journalist and New York Times bestselling true crime author M. William Phelps digs deep into the murder of Tammy Jo Zywicki and uncovers a murky police investigation, a potential pool of new suspects, and a community of people desperate for answers 30 years later.
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| 0:00.0 | Paper Ghosts is a true crime podcast investigating the mysterious disappearance and brutal unsolved murder of Tammy's Wiki. |
| 0:08.6 | They just kept telling us from the beginning, she'll be back, she'll be back. |
| 0:12.4 | We had no clue where she was. They know where to begin to look. |
| 0:16.0 | Tammy's story shocked the nation. The deeper I searched, the more troubling things I found. |
| 0:22.2 | The best lead, the best evidence, the best witness was blown off. |
| 0:28.4 | Listen to Paper Ghosts on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your favorite shows. |
| 0:36.3 | On the new podcast, The Turning, Room of Mirrors, we look beneath the delicate veneer of American ballet |
| 0:42.1 | and the culture formed by its most influential figure, George Balanjine. |
| 0:46.7 | He used to say, what are you looking at, dear? You can't see you, only I can see you. |
| 0:52.5 | What you're doing is larger than yourself, almost like a religion. |
| 0:56.0 | Like, he was a god. Listen to The Turning, Room of Mirrors on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:08.0 | When my daughter ran off to hop trains, I was terrified I'd never see her again, so I followed her into the train yard. |
| 1:15.8 | This is what it sounds like inside the box car. |
| 1:19.1 | And into the city of the rails, there I found a surprising world, so brutal and beautiful, that it changed me. |
| 1:26.6 | But the rails do that to everyone. |
| 1:28.4 | There is another world out there, and if you want to play with the devil, you're going to find them down the rail yard. |
| 1:34.2 | Undenail Morton, come with me to find out what waits for us and the city of the rails. |
| 1:38.8 | Listen to City of the Rails on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:44.4 | Or cityoftherails.com. |
| 1:50.2 | It went this not to be about a pretty co-ed who got murdered. |
| 1:54.8 | That can't be the story. The story has to be about a real person. |
| 2:02.2 | In the final weeks of summer, 1992, Tammy Zawicki was getting ready to start her senior year of college. |
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