The content of dark arenas includes topics and subject matter that may not be suitable for all audiences.

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and do not represent those of audio chuck or its employees.

Information discussed by the host and interviewees includes content related to crimes against children, abuse,

acts of terrorism, and violence.

This inner discretion is advised.

Children, they are innocent and the most vulnerable among us.

They should be kept close and cared for and watched over.

They're not able to see for themselves the darkness that looms in the real world.

Darkness in the forms of sexual predators, of doctors, and murderers.

These kinds of people are like a dark fog that can surround children in the blink of an eye,

and when that fog lifts, they've vanished with it.

Sometimes missing kids leave an empty swing set of vacant school bus stop,

or a single piece of clothing in their wake,

and it's those clues that cause a deep sense of disturbance to envelop entire communities,

freezing the very fabric of time for the families these children belong to.

Search parties, paper flyers, and volunteer groups,

trudging over leaves and land often help to find more clues,

but sometimes it takes living in darkness to understand darkness,

how to navigate it, and how to make it give up what it takes from us.

Members of the Federal Bureau of Investigations,

Child Abduction Rapid Deployment Team, do this.

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