I am going to tell you a story that a powerful state doesn't want you to know about tens of thousands who have disappeared.

Once they get into the hands of the military, they will be tortured brutally.

It's a story so dangerous to tell that for some it's meant ending up on a kill list.

She was seen as a dangerous political actor and tried to Pakistan security, but she was a local hero.

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Previously on missing and murdered finding Cleo.

So what are you thinking of when you see these ads?

These remind me of these adoptions for little puppies and little kittens in the paper.

Very discriminatory. There was only all of brown faces that were in there.

She came out of her house and she was holding the newspaper.

These are my babies.

I can't imagine the shock that Lillian must have felt.

Just reading the paper like it was any other day and turning the page and seeing a picture of her children.

Jen and I look through weeks and weeks of papers.

Every Tuesday there's an aim at.

I hope we find something.

Oh my gosh.

I think this is them.

That looks so much like them.

I'm Connie Walker and this is missing and murdered finding Cleo and investigative podcast by cbc news.

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