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The Bottle That Exposed a Trusted Man's Secret Poisoning Scheme

The Bottle That Exposed a Trusted Man's Secret Poisoning Scheme

Cold river water revealed a sealed amber pharmacy bottle tied to a trotline-knotted with orange paracord and hanging eighteen inches below the Calloway River surface in eleven-degree air. Inside was a handwritten document linking a closed pharmacy to a man whose 1993 death had been ruled natural; who had placed the bottle, and why was it left on a stranger’s anchor?

In this episode, we follow the chain of evidence from a bottle pulled by a fifty-three-year-old trotline operator to the small-town records and memories that reframe…

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