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“Ransomed for Pennies” Marion Parker Pt. 1

Jul 21, 202141 min
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Episode description

Ten days before Christmas 1927, a smooth-talking man walked into a school in Los Angeles and convinced the office to let him take 12-year-old Marion Parker. Despite her desperate father’s attempts to get her back, she was murdered in a manner so ghastly, thousands of officers and volunteers organized an interstate manhunt for her killer.

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