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#17 Ann Arbor Stories: Ann Arbor Mallet Murders

14m · Ann Arbor Stories | Ann Arbor District Library · 29 Sep 09:30

Listener discretion advised. This episode contains content that might not be suitable for all listeners. It does have the word murder in the title. Why did three teenagers from good homes bash nurse Pauline Campbell's brains out of her head one cool fall evening in 1951? Music by Alexander Mathias and Geoff White, made possible by GhoLicense.

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