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The Shoe in the Tree: How a Smear of Blood Solved Murder

The Shoe in the Tree: How a Smear of Blood Solved Murder

A single size-ten Reebok sat upright in the fork of a tree, laces tied, fifteen feet from a dead man’s body - an image that went unexamined for twenty-three years until a smear of blood on the shoe’s inner tongue changed everything. Why did no one test that blood sooner, and how did a workers’ compensation claim nearly two decades later unlock a cold case?

In this episode, we follow the sequence of events from the night Keith Parker left a diner on May 9, 1991, to the discovery of his body five days later and the overlooked evidence…

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