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Welcome to True Crime Brewery. I'm Jill. And I'm Dick.

On the remote island of Palmyra, about 970 Nautical miles south of Hawaii,

a series of crimes occurred against an experienced sailing couple,

Mac and muffgram.

A handful of other sailors spent time with the grams on the island, but the grams were eventually left alone with a desperate young couple.

Stephanie Stearns and her fugitive boyfriend, Leslie Buck Walker.

Then the grams went missing.

Soon afterward their boat was seen at a busy marina, repainted and in the possession

of Stearns and Walker.

The logical conclusion was that they had stolen the Graham's boat and murdered the couple,

but finding evidence in bringing Stearns and Walker to trial would take years.

Join us at the quiet end for sea-worthy, murder on Palmyra.

Learning what it takes to sail the ocean on a small sailboat and survive on a deserted island has really been fascinating.

At the core of the case is the sea worthiness of Stearns and Walker's boat.

The couple sailed to the island on a rickety boat with

inadequate food and supplies, and this leads to the very valid question of

whether their plan from the beginning was to steal a seaworthy well-stocked boat and murder its crew.

So listen, Jill, try as I might, I couldn't find any breweries on Palmyra. Well, no, there wouldn't be, would there?

And they're basically out in the middle of nowhere.

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