The episode revisits the 1997 unsolved murder of 18-year-old hitchhiker Tanya Teske, whose body was found naked and decomposing on a roadside in Idaho, and introduces a new person of interest—Mark Douglas Burns—whose violent history and geographic overlap with Tanya’s last known movements
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