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The Well That Hid a Son: How a Codicil Covered a Murder
The Well That Hid a Son: How a Codicil Covered a MurderThe silence that kept a man missing for twenty-three years began with a will and a codicil that redirected an entire inheritance. A skeletal hand found in a forty-foot dry well in October 2019 overturned a missing-persons file from 1996-so how did a legal document help bury the truth for decades?In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events from the last confirmed sighting to the probate filing and the discovery in the well, following the people and paperwork that shaped the case. What motives and missed steps tied a codicil to a…
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