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

The Meeks Family Murder

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

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

True Crime

4.825.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode, Paul and Kate travel to 1894 Lynn County, Missouri where a young girl's story of survival after the murder of her family sets the stage for this episode. As an investigation seeks to verify her story, details emerge that make this an almost movie-like thrilling case.

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

0:46.8

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

0:50.9

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

0:56.0

history's most compelling true crimes. And I weigh in using modern forensic techniques

1:00.8

to bring new insights to old mysteries. Together, using our individual expertise,

1:06.4

we're examining historical true crime cases through a 21st century lens.

1:11.6

Some are solved and some are cold. Very cold. This is varied bones.

1:26.0

Hey, Kate, how are you doing today? I'm doing well. How about you? I am hanging in there.

1:44.6

Well, good. I had a terrible night's sleep last night. Oh, no.

1:49.1

terrible night. Maybe think about what your nighttime rituals are and the most important thing.

1:56.0

Does Kora sleep with you and your wife or does Kora sleep somewhere else? Because I think that's

2:01.0

part of nighttime rituals for me. That's the problem. Yeah, you know, we when we got Kora as a puppy,

2:08.0

she was kept in a crate at night. And that was her comfort level. She would purposely put

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