This week’s episode begins in a similar fashion to last week’s. A young girl hitchhiking in the 1970s unfortunately accepts a ride from the wrong “family.” What follows are years of abuse in every form from a cruel “master” who slowly groomed her to be so dedicated to him that she was willing to do anything to keep him happy. Even after she was kept locked away in a tiny space with no light, room, food, or access to basic needs for more than 20 hours a day for years, Colleen Stan fought through it all by compartmentalizing and looking forward to even the smallest of rewards believing she was letting herself be put through this torture in order to save herself and her family.

Mary Vincent’s story is truly one of the most incredible, terrifying, and awe-inspiring tales any of us could ever hear in the world of true crime. The 1970s were most certainly a “different time” to say the very least. It was very common for people to get from one place to another via hitchhiking. Unfortunately, Mary would be one of the many victims to fall prey to drivers without the best of intentions.

From the very start of his life, the deck was stacked against Hadden Clark. Growing up in both a physically as well as emotionally abusive home, the young boy was taught from a very early age the art of manipulation by his entire family. His parents, while very intelligent, struggled deeply with their reliance on alcohol and overall deeper unresolved mental health conditions that manifested in Hadden’s “mistreatment” (for lack of a better phrase). Though by the end of today’s episode our listeners will know where Hadden ended up, all the details of how he got there and who was touched by his life an actions is still thought to be largely unknown to this day.