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Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes

The Freeway Phantom Murders PT 1

Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

True Crime

4.826K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2026

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode, the first part of a double, Paul and Kate travel to 1971 Washington DC where a young girl goes missing after heading to the store. After a string of similar cases emerge, the crimes start to show a pattern. 

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0:00.0

This is exactly right.

0:07.0

People who didn't do what John of God wanted them to do, they usually disappeared.

0:15.0

John of God was once Brazil's most famous spiritual healer.

0:20.0

But in this limited series podcast, we uncover the darker truth behind his global empire of faith and fear.

0:29.0

From exactly right and Adonde Media, this is Two-Faced, John of God.

0:34.6

Listen on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:44.6

I'm Kate Winkler Dawson. I'm a journalist who spent the last 25 years writing about true

0:50.5

crime. And I'm Paul Holes, a retired cold case investigator who's worked some of

0:54.7

America's most complicated cases and solve them. Each week, I present Paul with one of history's

1:00.9

most compelling true crimes. And I weigh in using modern forensic techniques to bring new

1:05.9

insights to old mysteries. Together, using our individual expertise, we're examining historical true crime cases

1:13.4

through a 21st century lens. Some are solved, and some are cold, very cold. This is buried bones. Hey Kate, how are you doing?

1:44.2

Great, Paul. How are you?

1:46.2

I'm doing great. You know, I just had a very nostalgic moment doing a Zoom with my parents.

1:52.2

Okay.

1:52.8

You know, back in the day, you know, when I first started to drive, I inherited, it was a hand-me-down,

1:59.6

Notting-Seventy-7-10 Station wagon as my very first car. So this is not a

2:06.1

car that any high school boy wants to drive. Wait, what color? It was silver with a black roof.

2:12.1

Okay. And, you know, it's so uncool, especially, you know, back in this would have been 1984,

2:22.2

something right in there, early 80s.

2:25.0

And I proceeded to blow the engine up.

2:27.9

Oh, how'd you do that?

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