When a young Texan woman fails to return home after a late night of waiting tables,

her car is found, bloody and stranded, in the heart of the notorious Texas killing fields.

A drunken confession to a 911 dispatcher leads to the untangling of a twisted story,

but still nobody in this episode of Last Seen Alive.

A dispatcher? Sounds like a doozy.

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