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The Shoe on the Trotline: Coin-Sized Bruise That Broke Delray
The Shoe on the Trotline: Coin-Sized Bruise That Broke Delray
A single white canvas sneaker, size seven, with a seam repaired in purple thread turned up on a trotline before dawn on May 14, 1989 - dry inside, with no waterline, as if set there hours earlier. A half-dollar-sized contusion above Crystal Draper’s right ear was noted in the autopsy addendum but omitted from the official accident narrative for twenty-six years; how did that coin-sized bruise vanish from the record?
In this episode, we follow the evidence left in plain sight and the details that were never shared with the family as…
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