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The Watch in the Pine: How a 16-Year Clue Broke a Cold Case

The Watch in the Pine: How a 16-Year Clue Broke a Cold Case

A deliberate golden Seiko watch hung from a pine branch forty feet off Route 9 for sixteen years, its clasp grown around by two inches of bark and its date window frozen on the ninth-so why would someone hide a watch to wait that long to be found? The discovery connected a diesel receipt from two days before Nancy Hamilton vanished and reopened a case archived since 2003; who placed the watch in the tree, and what message were they trying to leave?

In this episode, we follow the sequence of discoveries that reopened Nancy Hamilton’s…

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