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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[A 17-year-old answers the house phone in Spryfield, Nova Scotia. Twenty minutes later she walks out the door, leaves her cigarettes and a fresh glass of pop behind, and never makes it home. Thirty-three years on, the murder of Shelley Denise Connors remains one of Halifax’s most unsettling cold cases, not because there are no theories, but because so much of what people know has been swallowed by time, weather, and fear.  We trace the timeline from May 29, 1993 through the search behind J.L. ...]]></itunes:summary>
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