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Podcast: Nightmares
Episode: Protective Services
Description: It was May of 1998 in the small town of Romeo, Michigan and a crew of detectives found themselves knee-deep in a hoarderβs nest. The once quaint home of the Verellen Sisters now resembled the inside of a dumpster. The whole house was littered with trash: greasy paper bags, half-empty cups of soda, pest strips hanging from the ceiling collecting flies, and ketchup. There was an obscene amount of ketchup smeared over the entire home. With each step into the layers of trash on the floor, the detectives wondered what mysterious noise would pop under their feet. The squish of an...