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The Payphone Lie That Hid Dawn Barnes for Decades
The Payphone Lie That Hid Dawn Barnes for Decades
A tired, ordinary pay phone call erased Dawn Barnes from the timeline for twenty-three years - a four-minute call placed from Route Eleven to Knoxville that everyone believed came from her. That fabricated alibi let a mother disappear in broad daylight; who staged that call, and why did her ex-husband accept it as truth for decades?
In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events from Dawn's last known days to the discoveries that reopened her case, and we follow the trail from a misfiled folder and a pair of glasses to the confession that…
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