This is exactly right.

Two rich young Americans move to the Costa Rican jungle to start over,

but one of them will end up dead and the other tried for murder three times.

It starts with a dream, a nature reserve and a spectacular new home.

But little by little, they lose it. They actually lose it.

They sort of like nuts.

Until one night, everything spins out of control.

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

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

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

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

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

through a 21st century lens. Some are a good serial killer case. I know.

I actually have. I mean, this is a fascinating case. Yeah, it is. Let me go ahead and do a quick summary so we can get back into it. So we have a story that's set in 1971, California in Yuba City, and there are a series of men who have been found brutally murdered with, it looks like a meat cleaver knife.

It seems like it's cutting devices, beaten, just in terrible shape, and they've been found in what I describe as shallow

graves, but you say is pretty impressive, six foot by two to three feet deep.

And they're in orchards. And they're almost all exclusively, you know, transients, people

who work on the orchards, people who don't have families that are

following up if they go missing. And so far, we have these bodies found in two different

orchards. And the consistency is the brutality of the way they were killed, that they are transients.

They're all white men. They all seem to be sort of the same age range. I mean,

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