Hi, Crime Junkies. I'm your host, Ashley Flowers.

And I'm Britt.

And I have two stories for you today, actually.

One that is unfolding right now in Wisconsin

and another that began nearly two decades ago in Tennessee.

They are stories about vulnerable girls

who became victims first of sex trafficking

and then of the justice system.

Complicated stories with imperfect endings

but stories that we all need to better understand.

These are the stories of Crystal Kaiser and Sintoya Brown.

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It's just after 5am on Tuesday, June 5th, 2018, and first responders in Kenosha, Wisconsin

are racing to the scene of a house fire.

A neighbor had just woken up to see flames coming off the roof of a small house on the corner

and they called 911.

Now, firefighters focus on getting the fire under control, and once they do, that's when

they realize there had been someone in the house, a man.

According to Denise Smith's reporting for the journal Times, the man's body is badly

burned, too badly to make a positive ID.

But they're 99% sure that it's the homeowner, 34-year-old Randy Vohler.

They're also 99% sure that Randy didn't die in the fire.

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