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The Dry Boot at Colton Marsh: Why Frances Didn't Return

The Dry Boot at Colton Marsh: Why Frances Didn't ReturnA single dry left boot, standing upright on rain-soaked concrete after six hours of rain - an impossible detail that kept Detective Peggy Underwood awake and turned a routine field trip into a missing-person mystery. Eleven days after Frances Bauer left Keller Elementary at 1:52 p.m. carrying a child’s orange backpack, her body was found in a drainage culvert at Colton Marsh and questions about a lost headcount, a missing camera sighting, and a green pickup truck remained. How did Frances vanish between a recorded exit and a confirmed…

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