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On cult leader, I strive for telling stories in a truthful matter, though press, media, and other resources cannot always be verified.

Sources can be found in the show notes. Hello and welcome back to cult leader.

I'm your cult leader, Spencer Henry.

And you guys, you already know, I have been fully back into my lifetime movie era. And today's case was once again inspired by a lovely little made for television picture called precious victims.

You guys, it was everything.

Picture this.

We've got a 90s mom.

Okay.

90s mom, park overall, the star of another recent case we covered, driving a big truck down a dirt road.

She got a cigarette in her hand, honey.

Okay.

She's going to go drive down this dirt road. She's going to pull up and she's going to announce that she is pregnant.

I mean, does it get any better than that? A 90s mom trucking down the road, dart in hand.

It's incredible. Now, today's episode, we're actually going to start in Brighton,

Illinois. That's where the true story begins, at least in 1986 when this story begins. This was the

kind of place where life moved slowly, predictably, some might say, a small farming town tucked

amongst rolling stretches of cornfields and gravel roads.

People are driving their pickup trucks, rumbling down the two lane roads.

And when two drivers pass each other, they lift their hand up.

You know, you know what I'm talking about, that little wave you get, which pause.

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