The After Show: The Barefoot Witness

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[upbeat music] Hello, everybody. I'm Deborah Roberts, and it's so good to have you with us for our new episode of 2020: The Aftershow, where we take you behind the scenes and show you a little bit of a close-up look of our recording. Today, we're gonna take a different take on a story that I think still lingers for so many of us here. It certainly does for me. It begins with an image that we had in our piece for 2020 that is so hard to shake. A toddler wandering around a Louisiana parking lot, clutching a pillow, and she's pointing to her mom's car when she is finally discovered. And inside that car is a purse, keys, and a lot of blood. In fact, the little three-year-old had blood on her feet, and the child became what we called for our episode, the barefoot witness, because sadly, she was a witness to something that was pretty horrific. We would later discover, as we were putting our piece together, that the little girl's mom