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TIL a man’s mother was murdered by a hitchhiker whom he’d encountered that very same evening. He’d seen him in the vicinity of his home before finding his mother’s body, and told the police the hitchhiker was the culprit. They didn’t believe him until they found evidence supporting his story.

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