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The Judge Who Faced the Wall: Vanek Falls' Secret Portrait
The Judge Who Faced the Wall: Vanek Falls' Secret Portrait
A courthouse portrait has hung face-first against the plaster for more than fifty years, fixed by two iron hooks installed specifically to hide it; the brass plate still reads JUDGE DALE ALLEN MORROW, 1893-1921. Why was the canvas deliberately reversed after a sealed 1921 proceeding that followed three deaths in 1918, and why has a connected document sat accessible yet untouched for over twenty years?
In this episode, we follow the documented paper trail preserved in the Dellard County Courthouse and the small-town accounts that led a…
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