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Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of IHeart Radio.

Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Holly Fry.

And I'm Tracy V. Wilson. Uh, so this is another one of those

episodes, which I feel like it's been happening to me lately, which probably suggests something

about how my mind is working. But it started as one thing and then became something very different.

I was originally planning to do an anthology style episode where we talk about like three or four criminals who vanished and were never found, like, that escaped and just went away.

That still might happen, but not today, because I got to digging in on one in particular, and it held my attention for a whole episode's worth of content.

I sort of watched this happen virtually in real time.

And then when I got the outline, said that this was the right decision.

Yeah, I would hate to rush this.

They're so, it's interesting because in some ways,

there's not a ton of news coverage of it from contemporary sources, but what there is is really fascinating.

If you are one of our Salt Lake City listeners, and I know we have a lot there because every time I'm in that town, wonderful people come up and tell me that they listen to the show.

Aw.

And I love Salt Lake.

This one will probably be familiar to you.

It is the story of Jean Baptiste, who is sometimes referred to as the, with his

anglicized version of his name as John in various accounts.

That was part of why he was hard to find in newspapers.

But we figured it out.

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