In episode 8, we talked about Diane Downs, a mom who claimed that she and her three children were attacked by a “bushy-haired stranger,” but later investigation led detectives to believe that something more sinister may have happened. Then we talk about the murder of college student Haruka Weiser and the conviction of her murderer Meechaiel Criner.

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