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Found in a Sycamore: The Envelope That Unraveled a Family Secret
Found in a Sycamore: The Envelope That Unraveled a Family Secret
The shock of finding a sealed manila envelope hidden in a sycamore - dry, undamaged, and tucked into a hollow on a trail open only nine days - reveals handwriting from a man who'd been dead six years and a photo labeled "Baby Girl Zimmerman - July 9, 1987." How did those eleven handwritten words and that photograph end up waiting in a tree, and who arranged for a dog to find what a dead man could not deliver himself?
In this episode, we follow the discovery by Ronald Padgett and his dog Biscuit, the call that reopened an old…
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