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Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 72 – Missing Person, Part 12: “Kathy to the Rescue.”

This is English as a Second Language Podcast episode 72. I’m your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in beautiful Los Angeles, California.

This episode is the last in our 12-part special series: Missing Person, a murder mystery. In our previous episode, we found out that the person who had kidnapped and killed Sarah Salas was her own husband, Bill. We also found out that John Costello, the bartender who was shot and killed at his work, lived in the same apartment building as Bill and Sarah Salas.

Our narrator, Dr. Reeves, went over to Bill and Sarah’s apartment building and broke into John Costello’s apartment, where he surprised Bill. The two men fought, and at the end of the episode, Bill had Dr. Reeves’s gun and was going to shoot him. But Dr. Reeves suddenly remembered the pills that he found in Bill and Sarah’s apartment – pills for Bill’s bad leg. “Now,” he said,