The Skull In Boone County: Marlene Oakes
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In October 1980, Marlene Oakes, a 25-year-old mother of two from Lancaster, Kentucky, disappeared from her home in Verona after a fight with her husband, Bill Major. Bill told police she had simply left. But Marlene had written down a very different story in her diary. She had seen Bill abusing their son, she was planning to divorce him, and she had told her sister that if anything happened to her, the proof would go to the police.
A year later, a hunter found a woman's skull, with no teeth, on a farm a mile from the Major home. It sat unidentified for twenty years, until…
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