Episode 20: The Cadet
A West Point Cadet receives a mysterious visitor. . .and then vanishes. Despite the full force of the US government behind a multi-year search, missing cadet Richard Colvin Cox seems to have fallen off the face of the earth. Or has he?
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West Point Website
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