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Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 66 – Missing Person, Part 6: “Kathy (Again).”

This is English as a Second Language Podcast episode 66. 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 sixth in our 12-part special series: Missing Person, a murder mystery. In our previous episode, we learned that the kidnappers of Anne’s sister, Sarah, have demanded a large ransom, or a large amount of money, and have said not to call the police. We also learned that Anne and Sarah’s parents had owned a large computer company and left their daughters with a lot of money when they died.

It occurred to our narrator, Dr. Reeves, that the kidnappers must know Anne and Sarah in order to know that they could get a lot of money very quickly. Dr. Reeves asked Anne and Sarah’s husband, Bill, to make a list of possible suspects – people who might have committed this crime – and they came up with the names of two former employees of their parents’ computer company. Then, at the end, we found out that Dr. Reeves has his suspicions and thinks something might