Hello, Dreamers, and welcome back to the show. This is the 308th episode of California Dreaming, and I'm your host, Roseanne.

This is also the fourth part of a limited multi-part series on the 2020 murder of 11-year-old Gannon Stout,

which took place just as the COVID-19 pandemic was beginning to make its way around the world.

The person ultimately charged and convicted of his murder was his own stepmother, Letitia Stout.

So if you have yet to listen to the first three parts of this series,

you'll want to pause this now, catch up on those first, and then come back to

this. And I have just a few notes about this podcast in case you have never listened before.

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This week I would like to thank Kiki B in Illinois, Sunny N. in North Carolina, Beth M. in Australia,

Christina in San Leandro, California, Stacey W. in Georgia, Jennifer J. in Florida, Stacia A. in Seattle, Jeffrey C. in El Sago,

California, Aaron D. in Indiana, Julio O., Nora F. in Connecticut, Christine V. and Mindy in Cedar

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