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On cult leader, I strive for telling stories in a truthful matter, though press, media, and other resources cannot always be verified.

Sources can be found in the show notes. Hello and welcome back to cold leader. I'm your cold leader, Spencer Henry, and today,

Colt, babes, we have a story that has been requested dozens of times. It has stuck with me and so many

others over the decade, and there's been a lot of different times that I've thought about covering it

on the show. But it's the kind of case that's so dramatic, so horrifying, and truly impossible

to believe, a lifetime movie situation if there

ever was one. Speaking of, they actually did make a lifetime movie about this case back in

2015, The Cleveland Abduction, starring my favorite chaotic personality, Terran Manning,

who seems to becoming more and more like her Orange is the

new black character, Pensatucky on a daily basis. If you've seen the show, you know,

if you've seen her Instagram in the past out of the two years, you really know. But that's

another story for another day. For now, we need to go back to an Ohio suburb in 2002. That's

right.

Get pumped.

I've always heard that Ohio is for lovers, but there is absolutely no love lost in this story.

It's fucking wild, you guys.

I mean, the Cleveland abduction.

God, this case is not only sick and twisted, but I can remember where I was when the news broke. And we'll talk more about that later on. I've got a lot to say. But this was in late August 2002. And 21-year-old Michelle Knight

was just trying to get through the summer. Okay? She was already hanging on by a thread.

Besides reportedly dealing with a lot of different mental health struggles at the time from a

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