Episode 164: The Lipstick Killer PT 1
In this week's episode, Kate and Paul head to 1946 Chicago, where a woman is found dead in her home along with a note from the killer. After a child goes missing on the same road, investigators try to connect the two cases in this first episode of a two-parter.
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