Due to the graphic nature of this episode, listener discretion is advised.

This episode contains discussion of sexual assault, physical assault, abduction, murder

and suicide that some listeners may find disturbing.

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In the early morning hours of June 25, 1974, Marietta Yeager waited by the phone just

as she'd been instructed.

It was exactly one year on from the worst day of her life.

The day her daughter was taken.

Marietta checked the tape recorder the FBI had given her, making sure it was all in working

order.

She didn't want to miss a second of the call she was sure would come soon.

She still hoped that her daughter was alive.

And if that was the case, investigators needed every scrap of information she could get for

them.

At last, around two in the morning, the telephone rang.

Marietta stealed herself, then she clicked on the recorder and picked up the phone, ready

to talk to her daughter's abductor, ready to forgive.

Hi, I'm Greg Poulson.

This is serial killers, a Spotify original from Parkcast.

In the first part of this episode, we'll take a look at a crime that horrified a small

town and changed a family forever.

Later, we'll examine how the burgeoning field of criminal profiling helped investigators

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