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The Coffee Cup Message That Sentenced a Killer to Life

The Coffee Cup Message That Sentenced a Killer to Life

A paper coffee cup found in a snowbank bore a black-marker instruction: Tell Donna the number is four - written twice and left untouched since before the first frost. The cup and a matching one later recovered from a storage unit became the only deliberate message from a man who vanished from a commuter train, and it ultimately led to an arrest, a confession, and two life sentences. Who left the cups, and why did Marvin write his own routine on them before he disappeared?

In this episode, we follow the timeline from Marvin Allen White’s…

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