This podcast is about the unexplained death of a young woman, Laura Van Y. I have reviewed

and I will report on the contents of official case files provided by the police department

that's investigating her possible homicide, including witness interviews and police reports.

You will hear me provide my own opinions about these materials in the hopes of shedding

new light on this cold case.

It's important to stress, no person has ever been charged or convicted of killing Laura

and everybody identified in this podcast is innocent until proven otherwise.

Previously, on Bonaparte.

You're brainwashed to think that teen pregnancy or having a baby before you finish college

you get married is like the worst thing you can possibly do.

It was like Sam had fulfilled her.

Part of the impetus is to help Samson have some sort of sense of what might have happened.

I think they were shocked by the custody proceedings and they had no idea what links I would

go to.

I'll never forget that feeling.

I was so elated.

I was the happiest that I had probably been in years and years and years.

She didn't want them to be able to find out in any way where she was.

But I can understand why she left.

I mean, he needed to start over.

We both did.

For me, it's been such an ever-present thing in my life, you know, since I was a small

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