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In season five, David Rigen travels north to Thompson, Manitoba to investigate the 1986 murder of Carrie Brown.

This is Episode 9, Marnie.

When Carrie Brown went missing, it was a Thursday night. Friday posters were put up around town. Saturday, her body was located.

So it was around Saturday afternoon when I heard about it. But in between those days on the Friday, I received a call in the early morning hours of the Friday morning.

This is Marnie Schaefer, the civilian RCMP phone operator that Jean-Marc Vilnov told me about.

Well, ideally, I would love to use anything you told me in the podcast.

I feel a lot of thinking over the last couple of months, you know, do I don't I?

Marnie worked at the Thompson Detachment for 10 years, 22 years in total for the RCMP.

She was on duty the night Carrie Brown disappeared, and she took a while to get hold of.

And I think the thing that made me say, okay, you got me, was when you tried to contact me on Facebook and you got my household number.

And then I thought, yeah, he's persistent, okay?

Marnie straightforward, though cautious voice on the other end of the phone is the same I heard in the off-record interview that APTN's Ken Jackson had conducted over five years ago.

And did any police ever speak to you about this on record? Like do you remember any RCMP officer interviewing you and writing down what you're saying?

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