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I'm your cult leader, Spencer Henry.

And Colpabes, we've got a story to talk about. I'm your cult leader, Spencer Henry, and Colpabes,

we've got a story to talk about. So if you've been following closely on Instagram and listening

to the recent Little Leaders, I've already mentioned that there is a cold case that I have been

working on investigating the past couple of weeks. It caught my attention last month, and I just haven't stopped thinking about it.

I've been spending hours and hours and hours, scouring archives, reaching out to the police

departments, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, the county's medical examiner, and I'm still very

much piecing together all of my thoughts on that particular case. However, today we're going to be

talking about a different cold case. And this one involves a woman named Leslie Sparrow.

It's another case that left me with a lot of questions. And unlike the

other cold case I'm working on that took place in Tennessee, the case we're talking about today

happened just over yonder in our neighboring state of Kentucky back in the 1970s. It's a pretty interesting scenario we have here, especially the way that this case was brought back into public attention in the 2020s. But first, we need to go back to the 1970s. And in the late 1970s, if you were driving through Boone County, northern Kentucky, especially

along the stretch near Idle Wild Road, you could pass right by this certain patch of land.

Okay, you're driving, there's this little piece of land to the left.

You might never think twice about it.

Many people did.

People drive up and down that road all day long,

and a lot of people wouldn't look over and think there was anything crazy back there. However,

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