Detectives Callie Pritchard and Nikesh Ready continue to hear from Lucy Phelps about her missing husband and son. Is she telling the truth? Let us know what you think.

Useful vocabulary from this episode:
paperwork
reports and other documents that people prepare and create as part of their job

state of mind
how someone is feeling and behaving at a particular time

forensic
detailed scientific methods used to solve a crime

Scooby Doo
fictional cartoon dog, famous for solving crimes

dungarees
clothing item consisting of trousers and a piece of cloth covering the chest, held up by straps over the shoulders

AWOL
missing (from the military acronym – absent without official leave)

heading
going in the direction of

synced
(informal for ‘synchronised’) data that identical is in more than one place

hooded
clothing item with a hood

running around in circles
wasting time with no final result

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