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When Liz Ramirez\u2019 nieces came to visit her for a week in 1994, they had a nice time. They went to the pool. They played basketball. They ate hot dogs. Liz\u2019s roommate, Kristie Mayhugh met the girls. So did Liz and Kristie\u2019s friends, Cassandra Rivera and Anna Vasquez. At the end of the week, the girls hugged their aunt goodbye and went back to their dad\u2019s house. Later, the girls came forward with a shocking allegation. They said that their aunt and her three friends had gang raped them. There\u2019d been drugs. Weapons. Satanic overtones. The most disturbing part? It was all made up.
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\nThen Brandi tells us about Michele Neurauter, whose death inside her upstate New York home was designed to look like a suicide. But something about it seemed off. Michele had an odd rope mark on her chin. Then there was the timing. Michele had recently won a long-fought, bitter custody battle for her youngest daughter. Why would she do this now?\xa0
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\nAnd 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.
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\nIn this episode, Kristin pulled from:
\n\u201cThe Mystery of the San Antonio four,\u201d by Maurice Chammah for the Texas Observer
\nThe documentary, \u201cSouthwest of Salem\u201d
\n\u201cSan Antonio Four to host fundraiser for Innocence Project of Texas,\u201d for Henry Ramos for KENS5
\n\u201cWhat it\u2019s like to be falsely branded a satanic child molester,\u201d by Chase Madar for Vice
\n\u201cHow junk science and anti-lesbian prejudice got four women sent to prison for more than a decade,\u201d by Linda Rodriguez Mcrobbie for Slate
\n\u201cInside case behind wrongful conviction doc \u2018Southwest of Salem\u2019\u201d by Bridgette Dunlap for Rolling Stone
\n\u201cSex assault case,\u201d Associated Press
\n\u201cRemaining women in abuse case freed,\u201d by Will Weissert for the Associated Press
\n\u201cSan Antonio Four exonerated in child rape case,\u201d by Emanuella Grinberg for CNN
\n\u201cJudge clears records of wrongfully convicted San Antonio 4,\u201d by Tim Fitzsimons for NBC News
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\nIn this episode, Brandi pulled from:
\n\u201cKarrie\u2019s Choice\u201d episode 48 Hours
\n\u201cFamily Values\u201d episode Mastermind of Murder
\n\u201cMan Coerces Daughter To Help Him Kill His Ex-Wife And Stage Crime As A Suicide\u201d by Joe Dziemianowicz
\n\u201cMan pleads guilty to killing ex-wife, conspiring with daughter in Corning murder\u201d by Jeff Murray, Star Gazette
\n\u201cLife without parole: Lloyd Neurauter killed ex-wife with help from their daughter\u201d by Jeff Murray, Star Gazette
\n\u201cKarrie Neurauter, manipulated into helping kill mother, released from prison\u201d by Jeff Smith, Star Gazette\n
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