This is exactly right.

I'm Kate Winkler-Dawson.

I'm a journalist who's spent the last 25 years writing about true crime.

And I'm Paul Holes, a retired cold case investigator

who's worked some of America's most complicated

cases and solve them.

Each week, I present Paul with one of history's most compelling true crimes.

And I weigh in using modern forensic techniques to bring new insights to old mysteries.

Together, using our individual expertise, we're examining historical true crime cases

through a 21st century lens.

Some are solved, and some are cold, very cold.

This is buried bones.

This is Buried Bones. Hey, Kate, I guess we have a second part to a two-parter today, huh?

We do. We have a kidnapping of a young girl, 17-year-old, named Leslie Whittle,

and she is from a village in West Midlands of England, and she is from a very wealthy family.

Somebody has come into her home. She shares with her mother.

She has an adult brother who lives not far away, but it's just the two of them. In a house that

you and I, you know, talked about being sort of visibly exposed to people because it's sort of

walls of glass almost, the second floor. So she's been taken.

It looks like just wearing a robe in her slippers and if she was wearing pajamas. And the police have

not seen her. The kidnapper or kidnappers have left behind notes, odd notes, using a label maker, which is an interesting choice.

They have confusing instructions, and her brother cannot figure it out, and they keep missing

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