This episode of Crime Lines was a collaboration between me and Allison with coffee and cases.

If you haven't listened to Coffee and Cases yet, I highly recommend it. Working with Allison

gave me a look into her behind the scenes process. And if you think Crime Lines is well

researched, you're going to love coffee and cases. In the episode you were about to hear, a theory came up in the case that this was the work of

Robert Hansen, a well-known serial killer.

I looked at what was publicly available on the internet and formed my own opinion on the

likelihood of his involvement, but Allison, she called Leland Hale, the author of Butcher Baker, who is

the expert on Robert Hansen, and she found out what he thinks and was able to bring in

information that you're not going to just find with a basic Google search. This episode has a

lot more depth, thanks to Allison's interviews, not just with Leland

Hale, but with members of the victim's family. So while you're listening to this, go ahead and

search for coffee and cases in your favorite podcast app and subscribe. You're going to love the show.

And with that, here's the episode.

In Bethel, New York, from August 15th through the 18th, roughly half a million people had gathered to celebrate what was touted as three days of peace and music that we now refer to with a single word, Woodstock.

But around a thousand miles away, in the state community of Burlington, Iowa, life kept it

slower pace. Children played across the city's 200 acres of manicured parks,

and residents sat on their front porches, just as I used to do with my grandma, and chatted with

neighbors, talked about the weather, or just watched the sky fade to beautiful sunset hues.

It was a town where the now seemingly lost art of leisure was still thriving.

Sadly, that piece would be short-lived,

as the town was about to be rocked by a crime that would shake the community to its core

and leave its residents, as well as law enforcement in disbelief.

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