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Episode 259
Sword and Scale
English - March 04, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour - 75.7 MB - ★★★★ - 58.9K ratingsTrue Crime Science Social Sciences crime justice murder unsolved mysteries criminals greed violence trials cases Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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When Jessica Lynn Reale was 13-years-old, she was timid and untrusting. In early October of 1997, she mustered the courage to approach her 8th grade math teacher, a woman she’d only known for a number of weeks, to tell her a huge secret she had been keeping. Jessica told her teacher that she couldn’t go back home because someone had poured bleach all over her. This situation warranted a CPS report, but the involvement of the FBI or Sacramento County Law Enforcement was unexpected.