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Hello, it's Richard McLean Smith here.

Very excited to announce that this May I'll be heading to Crime Con 2026 in Las Vegas,

the world's number one true crime event, and I'd love to see you there.

From May 29th to the 31st, thousands of true crime fans, investigators, journalists, podcasters, experts and survivors,

will gather at Caesar's Palace and Las Vegas for an unforgettable weekend of live talks,

exclusive panels, deep dives and behind-the-scenes conversations.

I'll be appearing throughout the weekend on Creator Row, so please come and say hello.

And if you'd like to join me for my live session,

treasure,

betrayal and death in Vegas, the Ted Binion Mystery. I'll be speaking at 1020 a.m. on the Saturday morning.

To get tickets, head to crimecon.com and use promo code unexplained for 10% off. I hope to see you there. Please note, this episode contains disturbing scenes of attempted murder.

Parental discretion is advised.

In the winter of 1994, in eastern Indiana, a 13-year-old boy plays in a patch of woodland

that runs alongside his family's farm about 50 yards from their porch.

He spots something strange, protruding from the ground.

It's some kind of bone. As he draws near, it becomes increasingly

clear that what he is looking at is in fact part of an entire human skeleton, loosely covered over

with red dirt. In horror, he calls for his mother to come and see it. Together, the boy Eric and his mother Julie looked down at the

grim specimen and wonder how on earth it came to rest on their land. The Baumeisters had lived

on the property for seven years and had been no mention of a graveyard or any hint of anything

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