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Tapes from the dark side contains descriptions of violence and sexuality. Listener discretion is advised.

It was just before 9 p.m. on September 24, 1973, 18-year-old Becky Thompson Brown grabbed her keys and asked her 11-year-old half-sister,

Amy Burridge, if she wanted to come along for a quick grocery run.

Just a routine trip to the Thriftway store in Casper, Wyoming,

a quiet town of fewer than 40,000 people back then, where

a visit to the market meant bumping into neighbors and exchanging small town smiles.

The sisters drove Becky's Ford station wagon to the store at 12th in Melrose.

Inside, nothing seemed out of the ordinary, just two girls scanning the aisles

for dinner ingredients. But when they stepped back outside, one of the cars' tires was flat. They

didn't know it had been slashed. They didn't know that the two men parked beside them.

Jerry Jenkins and Ronald Kennedy were the ones who did it. The men offered to

help playing the part of friendly strangers. In reality, they were circling prey. The tire was never the

point. It was a trap. Within minutes the girls were abducted. The men were drunk and dangerous. Jerry Jenkins,

heavy set and slow-eyed drove. Ronald, twitchy and wild-looking, sat in the passenger seat and began

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