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Dakota Spotlight

Quick Update #1 - A Better Search for Barbara

Dakota Spotlight

James Wolner

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.9813 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2021

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Season 5, Episode 11  Just a very quick update to let you know that the Dakota Spotlight Facebook Group is unavailable to me now because for some reason my facebook account has been suspended. All the Barbara Cotton content is just gone, for now. Barbara Louise Cotton has been missing since 1981. Her case is unsolved and open--one of North Dakota's oldest and most mysterious Cold Cases.  twitter https://twitter.com/DakotaSpotlight Check out the full catalog of Dakota Spotlight true crime podcasts at https://dakotaspotlight.com where you can sign up for a newsletter, subscribe to the new and exciting Spotlight PLUS ad-free experience and much more.  Head over to https://dakotaspotlight.com to learn more.  Advertise your podcast or brand in Dakota Spotlight episodes by sending email to [email protected] Email: [email protected] Facebook: https://facebook.com/groups/dakotaspotlight Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody. This is James with the Dakota Spotlight podcast. I'm sitting in my office today. This is not a real episode. This is a little update.

0:13.4

I just want to let you know an update here that the Facebook group, well, my Facebook account has been suspended by Facebook, which means I cannot access the Facebook group. Well, my Facebook account has been suspended by Facebook, which means I cannot access the

0:23.3

Facebook group. Currently, the Facebook page is still active. You can go to www. Facebook.com

0:35.6

slash Dakota Spotlight to get to the page. But the group is gone, and so is all

0:41.7

of the content about Barbara Cotton, all the photographs, all the discussions we've had over

0:47.1

the last few weeks. I don't know why it was suspended. I just got a text from my sister here

0:52.9

because my niece works in social media and she

0:56.0

says, my sister texting me about what my niece says, it sometimes just takes one person to file a

1:02.7

complaint. Facebook's M.O. is they would rather just suspend someone than get into trouble given all

1:08.9

the capital riot stuff. So I don't know if someone complained about something on Dakota Spotlight Group or my account or something,

1:17.8

but I currently just want to let you guys know that if you are members of the group,

1:22.0

there's 3,000 of you now, I am unable to access it.

1:26.7

You can still get to the Facebook page for now.

1:29.3

I don't know. Maybe I'll get suspended from that too, or who knows.

1:33.3

But yesterday was the gathering in Williston.

1:37.3

We had a great turnout considering the weather.

1:40.3

It was a really nice day.

1:42.3

I did post a Facebook live video in the Facebook group, but that's no

1:48.2

longer available. No pictures of Barber or anything. Otherwise, for updates tomorrow, Tuesday,

1:55.8

the 13th, I'm going to be interviewing the person who arrested Frank Delapena in 1981, the sheriff at the time. So, so I'm going to be interviewing the person who arrested Frank Delapena in 1981, the sheriff at the time.

2:04.4

So obviously, he'll have hopefully some interesting stories about that and about Delepena and the

2:11.3

suicide. This is obviously not a very well-polished episode. I'm just putting this out there

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