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On a hot summer day in Illinois, police officers made their way through a big field out in the middle of nowhere.

They pushed aside the tall grass and they could see and hear flies buzzing all around them.

And then suddenly, the officer at the front of the group stopped.

They crouched down and then signaled to the others.

They had finally found the body.

The other officers rushed to him, and when they got there, they all just stopped and

stared down at the dead young woman.

The cops knew something like this was going to leave the people in the small town nearby in complete shock.

But they had no idea what this discovery would lead to, because this dead young woman in the field

would soon help solve a murder that had taken place across the border in Indiana,

and lead police to a cold-blooded killer who had been on the run for two years.

But before we get into that story, if you're a fan of the Strange Dark and Mysterious

delivered in story format, then you've come to the Right Podcast because that's all we do and we upload twice a week,

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Okay, let's get into today's story. Oh, yeah. You're going to. On the afternoon of Saturday, September 6th, 1997, 19-year-old Brooke Baker typed furiously on a computer in the journalism department at Vincennes University in the small college town of Vincennes, Indiana.

Brooke looked at the words on the screen and she felt a rush of excitement.

Writing was her favorite pastime.

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