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How a gruesome urban myth derailed the search for missing Blackpool schoolgirl Charlene Downes

How a gruesome urban myth derailed the search for missing Blackpool schoolgirl Charlene Downes

Charlene Downes, 14, vanished without a trace from her home town of Blackpool more than two decades ago.

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