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This is Christopher Goffard, the writer and host of the trials of Frank Carson.
I'm here with Los Angeles Times deputy Metro editor Steve Clow, and we're going to talk about episode two of our podcast.
Welcome, Steve.
Thank you, Chris.
Episode two, a disappearance.
We learn more about what happened to Corey Coffman and how the authorities came to begin to probe deeply into who might have been attached to his disappearance.
Yeah.
Here is how chief Assistant District Attorney Marlisa Ferreira, who would prosecute the case, described Corey Kaufman to me.
So this wasn't a kid who had been a tweaker all his life.
This was a really good kid that all of his teachers said nice things about.
If you went and you got Turlock teachers to talk about who he was, Orlando, people that knew him as a child or as a teenager, they all say he was the nicest kid in the world, he'd give you the shirt off his back.
At this point in the story, he's still a missing person, though.
By the end of the episode, they will have found his bones.
And in this episode, we hear from Kevin Pickett, who's Corey Kaufman's stepdad, and he's struggling to figure out when exactly his stepson disappeared.
Pickett would have trouble keeping his date straight.
To the great frustration of the investigators, he produced a receipt from Modesto junk company on 9th street.
It said that his stepson, Corey, had received $46 cash for a load of mixed scrap metal on the afternoon of Wednesday, March 28, 2012.
Pickett thought that had been the last day he had seen Corey.
Here is Kevin Pickett being interviewed by the cops.
It had to be the 28th.