She never left Harlan alive
She never left Harlan alive
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In 1969, a young woman was stabbed to death in Harlan, Kentucky, and buried without a name.
To many locals, she’s known as “Mountain Jane Doe.” To Darla Jackson and Todd Matthews, her case deserved a little extra digging.
We follow Darla and Todd into the wooded hills of Harlan to exhume the body of Mountain Jane Doe. What they end up finding is unexpected.