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The following episode contains disturbing accounts of physical and sexual violence involving children.

Listener discretion is advised.

April was just an ordinary little girl.

You got the little kids' picture on milk cartons.

And you always keep telling yourself that that's never

going to happen to you.

It was very unusual for a child to disappear in broad daylight.

You're out there screaming and hollering, yelling April.

This guy raped and murdered a child.

It rocked the whole city.

Then another young girl goes missing.

And her case ends up being a homicide also.

This monster was still on our streets.

They were stalking young girls, bragging, saying that they were going to take more children.

I kept saying, we will find the person that did this, but I wasn't expected to go 30 years.

There are over 100,000 cold cases in America.

Only about 1% are ever solved.

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