Hi crime junkies I'm your host Ashley Flowers and I'm Brett.

Brett when I see familiar dates I don't know if you do this but like my mind

immediately tries to put the story in the context of my own life where was I

what was I doing,

when someone else's life was being changed so drastically?

And most of the time I'm making like big guesses,

but this time I know exactly where both of us were because it was December of 1988.

Oh, we were being born.

Just about to be.

It's December 10th, 1988.

It was such an innocuous day for them back then,

but eventually it ended up making national

and international headlines,

and now it's not so strange that we're talking about that day, especially because it had such an

important underlying message. But again, back then, back on December 10th, 1988,

I don't think anyone expected two girls who were just about to enter the world

to eventually be talking about this case some 35 years later. This is the story of

Scott Johnson. the So, The red light on Steve Johnson's answering machine is blinking. He doesn't know when he

missed a call because time has been a bit of a blur since he and his wife Rosemary had their first baby six weeks ago.

But when he presses play, he hears a familiar voice.

It's his brother's partner, Michael.

It's a little out of the ordinary for Michael to be calling. The calls normally come from Steve's brother Scott and even those are kind of rare since he'd moved to Australia to pursue his doctorate.

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