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Brandi starts us off with a story that\u2019ll have you giving the side-eye to good looking white guys everywhere. This horrible crime began when a well-dressed, charming man walked into a Los Angeles high school and politely informed the school\u2019s registrar that he needed to speak with a wealthy banker\u2019s daughter. It only took a little persuasion for him to walk out of the school with 12-year-old Marion Parker. Soon, Parker\u2019s family received ransom notes from a man who identified himself as \u201cthe fox.\u201d He promised to return the girl alive \u2014 as long as the Parkers did as they were told.

Then Kristin tells us about the longest and most expensive criminal trial in American history. It all started when a mother suspected that her toddler had been molested at daycare. Police immediately took action. They sent letters to the hundreds of parents whose children attended the daycare. Police indicated that the children at McMartin Preschool could have witnessed or been victims of a number of traumatic experiences, including child pornography, sodomy, and oral sex. The parents were horrified. A social worker interviewed 400 of the children. In the end, she found that nearly all of them had been abused. But did she really uncover abuse? Or were her interview methods lkjflawed? Had anything actually happened at McMartin Preschool?

And now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.

In this episode, Kristin pulled from:
\n\nMcMartin Preschool case, famous-trials.com
\n\n\u201cThe Longest Trial \u2013 A Post-Mortem,\u201d New York Times
\n\n\u201cMcMartin Preschool: Anatomy of a Panic,\u201d New York Times (video)

In this episode, Brandi pulled from:
\n\n\u201cAggie and The Fox\u201d by Joan Renner, DerrangedLACrimes.com
\n\n\u201cGirl\u2019s Grisly Killing Had City Residents Up in Arms\u201d by Cecilia Rasmussen, Los Angeles Times
\n\n\u201cThe Murder of Marion Parker\u201d by Mark Gribben, murderpedia.org
\n\n\u201cEdgar Rice Burroughs Reports on the Notorious 1928 Hickman Trial\u201d erbzine.com

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