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Thank you for joining me for today's episode of Once Upon a Crime. This is the first chapter of the series,

Murder Memories. In these episodes, I'll be telling you about a very strange and rare phenomenon,

recovered memories of murder. Witnessing or committing a murder would be something you'd think

would be remembered until your dying day. But could it be possible that a person would forget about a murder?

Could a traumatic event, like witnessing a violent crime, cause a person to repress the memory so

completely that they, in essence, forget they ever saw such a horrific event? That is the question

that needed to be answered in the story I'm about to tell you.

A woman came to believe that when she was very young,

she witnessed the murder of another young girl,

and then forgot about it for decades until the memory resurfaced.

She then reported the crime to the police,

who were tasked with investigating a 20-year-old cold case,

and then deciding whether the evidence could prove she was telling the truth.

This is a fascinating case that stayed in my memory for decades,

and now I can share it with you.

This is Chapter 1 of Murder Memories,

the recovered memory of Eileen Franklin.

Susan Nason was eight years old and in the third grade at Foster City Elementary School

in the fall of 1969.

She was a tiny girl with red hair and freckles

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