True Crime Tuesday: The Bluebelle Tragedy

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On True Crime Tuesday, Gary and Shannon look into the mystery of a little girl lost at sea after her family is slaughtered on their boat.

It began with a man in a boat and a little girl in a raft. On November 13, 1961, the tanker Gulf Lion was plying the waters of the Northwest Providence Channel in the Bahamas when it crossed paths with a small dinghy towing a life raft. The man in the dinghy shouted up to an officer on the tanker, identifying himself as Julian Harvey, captain of the ketch Bluebelle. The little girl in the raft, he said, was Terry Jo Duperrault, and she was dead.

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