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Like Mother, Like Daughter: Korrina Malinoski & Annette Sagers Day 2: 12 Nightmares Before Christmas

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Annette’s note said, “Dad, Mom came back. I have to go with her.”

1. Our True Crime Podcast focuses on the disappearances of Corrie Sagers and her daughter Annette Sagers from Mount Holly Plantation in Berkeley County, South Carolina. 2. Jen and Cam host the episode, and their commentary frames Steve Malinowski as the central person of interest in the family’s 1987 and 1988 disappearances. 3. The episode asks how Corrie vanished after a fight, how Annette disappeared from a bus stop nearly a year later, and what the note left behind actually means. 4. On November 21, 1987, Corrie’s boss from the Oasis convenience store drove to the plantation after she missed work for the first time in six months. 5. The boss found Corrie’s car parked and locked inside the gate, then walked the half-mile driveway to the house and spoke with Steve. 6. Steve said Corrie left after a fight around 11 to 11:30 p.m. and never came back, but the police found that explanation suspicious. 7. Officers saw transmission fluid leaking from the house to the gate and found no signs of a struggle or forced entry. 8. Corrie’s family in Iowa and Illinois had not heard from her, and they were alarmed that Steve had not called them after she disappeared. 9. Police also checked Steve’s claim that Corrie was having an affair, but they found that his porch could not see the gate because the road curved and the property was wooded. 10. A polygraph came back inconclusive, and investigators said the search was difficult because Mount Holly Plantation covered 6,000 acres. 11. After Corrie disappeared, Cheryl and Corrie’s father came to South Carolina, and Cheryl said Steve would not let Annette be alone with them. 12. Annette reportedly wanted to take Cheryl into the attic to show her something, which led the hosts to discuss whether she was trying to speak privately. 13. The episode says Annette later contacted a caretaker because she and her brothers had not eaten in almost three days, and Social Services noted neglect. 14. Steve kept custody of the children, even though Corrie’s brother Lee wanted to adopt Annette after waiting the required year. 15. On October 4, 1988, Annette disappeared from a small rain shelter at a bus stop near Highway 52 in Moncks Corner, and the dog she had been with was still there. 16. Steve said he found a handwritten note at the bus stop that read, “Dad, Mom came back. I have to go with her. Give the boys lots of kisses and hugs. And also, you too. Love, Annette.” 17. The hosts and investigators question that note because the bus-stop shelter had three sides, the paper sat on the bench after eight hours, and Steve did not appear surprised by the message. 18. A pond on the plantation was later drained in 1990, and workers found a rug tied with an electrical cord at the bottom, but it was never tested and was thrown away. 19. The episode is conversational and skeptical, with Jen and Cam interrupting each other, reacting in real time, and revisiting the timeline step by step. 20. Listeners who follow older missing-person cases with family conflict and plantation geography will want this episode, while people who want quick resolution and no unresolved details may skip it.

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