Hi, crime junkies. I'm your host, Ashley Flowers. And I'm Britt. And we actually have a special guest today. If you hear a little wimpers or tiffy taps or anything. Or snores. For the first time since like early days crime junkie, old man is in the room while we're recording. So please forgive us. But our 14 year old man wanted to cuddle today and I'm allowing it.

Totally. And it's not going to keep me from telling you an incredible story. And that story

is a mystery right out of our home state of Indiana. But listen, Britt, the circumstances of this

are so foreign that I've heard this story, but it always felt so far away to me.

We're talking horse mobsters, illegal medical boats operating out in open waters.

There has been no case like this before or since.

And that's why it's one of Indiana's most infamous cases.

Music cases. The work day has barely started on Monday, July 4th, 1966, when Indiana Dunes State Park, which today is surrounded by Indiana Dunes National Park, like, it's like a whole thing anyways.

Superintendent William Svedic is getting a panicked call on his office phone.

The caller IDs himself as Harold Blow, and he's like, look, my daughter and her friends were at your park on Saturday.

It's Monday now, and they haven't come home.

My wife and I are super worried.

Now, all of these are, you know, these are three young women.

Harold's daughter, Patricia, she's 19.

Her friends Ann Miller and Renee Broll are around the same age, like 21 and 19 respectively.

Okay.

But Patricia still lives at home, and she wouldn't leave for days without giving her parents a heads up.

And Patricia had even told her mom Saturday that morning when she left that she would be home that night for dinner.

And the other girls were supposed to be home too, but none of them returned

to their Chicago homes just over the state line. Svedic tells Harold, okay, listen, I'll look into it.

But this uneasy feeling starts to creep in his belly because he might already know something

about the missing girls, and it could be bad. You see, two days before on Saturday,

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