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The Promised Land

TV-14 | Someone they Knew with Tamron Hall | Season 1 | 2026

For Iowa farmers, nothing's more important than land. That's why Tom Lyon was so excited that a nearby plot was for sale... and he wasn't the only one. When Lyon's body was discovered at the bottom of a well, the trail of blood led through that very land. Where it ended up was just as shocking.

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