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The Girl in the Window: Forty Years of Family Secrets
The Girl in the Window: Forty Years of Family Secrets
The photograph sat sealed for forty years in a cardboard tube until Douglas Boyd opened it under his kitchen light in March 2019 and saw, through a gymnasium window, a girl whose face matched the faded missing-child flyer of his aunt Deborah, who vanished in June 1978 at age eight. How did a child who had never lived in Indiana appear in a 1979 Crestview Elementary school picture, and what choices kept that image- and the truth- hidden for decades?
In this episode, we follow the events the transcript records: the night Douglas found the…
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