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Thank you for joining me for today's episode of Once Upon a Crime.

In this series, I Detail Cases of Missing Persons

who disappeared for months or even years, leaving their loved ones behind searching for answers.

When the truth is finally revealed, their families will be shocked to learn how close they

were to uncovering the truth all along.

In this week's episode, a teenage boy goes missing in 1984.

Authorities would quickly decide that he was a runaway, but his family didn't agree

and kept searching.

14 years later, his fate would be learned in a shocking and unusual way.

This is chapter 2 of the series, Very Truth, the disappearance of Christopher Allen Denoyer.

Christopher Denoyer was having a tough time adjusting to his life since his parents'

divorce.

Mike and Dale Denoyer had split up when Chris was still in grade school.

By the time he reached his teens, both of his parents had remarried, and for Chris, things

took a turn for the worse.

Chris's mother Dale remarried a man named Jackson Vierda, and Chris and his younger sister

Sherry moved to the central California town of Selenis with their mother and new stepfather.

Chris was enrolled in North Selenis High School, and joined the football team in his sophomore

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