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Wesley Allan Dodd’s 1989 arrest in Washington State for the murder of 3 young boys ended his 15 year career of violent sex crimes. Through interviews with Dodd, other sexual offenders and their families, therapists, and treatment specialists, correspondent Al Austin investigates the epidemic of sexual assault and examines Washington’s desperate solution to the problem-to keep the offenders locked up until they are judged to be no longer a danger.
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