Episode 118: UNSOLVED MYSTERY – The Boys on the Tracks

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In this episode, Meg takes us back to early summer 1970 to investigate the heartbreaking and deeply unsettling case of three young friends from Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. When the boys set off on a secret hitchhiking trip, it would end in tragedy and leave questions that are still unanswered to this day.

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