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100,000 podcasters already using Buzzsprout to get their message out to the world. Now

it's time for the world to hear what you have to say. Due to the graphic nature of this week's

episode, listener discretion is advised.

It was 1987, and the sleepy town of Ina, Illinois, had become paranoid.

Teenagers, nervous about becoming victims, would wait patiently for their parents to pick them up from school,

rather than the normal assertion of independence that comes in the teenage years.

Gone with the carefree nature of childhood.

Adults also determined not to become victims drove around packing guns in their vehicles, better safe than sorry.

Gone was the sense of security from the outside world that's normally present in small towns.

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