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Welcome to Case Closed, a show about the times the bad guy didn't get away with it.

The times the good guys discover exactly who the killer is, and how sometimes that's

just the beginning of the story.

I'm Charlie Spicer.

When we left off last episode, Erin Corwin had left her family behind and moved to California

to join her husband John on the military base in 29 palms.

29 palms is in the middle of the desert surrounded by mountains, just very, very distant.

That's author Shanna Hogan, who spent time researching the town for her book about Erin Corwin,

secrets of a marine's wife.

A town so unique that it became its own character in Erin's story.

To understand what really happened, what Erin's life in California was like, who she met

there, and where it all went so wrong, we have to understand the setting in which our

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