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The Grave That Lied: My Grandfather, Declared Dead for 43 Years
The Grave That Lied: My Grandfather, Declared Dead for 43 Years
A gravestone standing alone in a field named a man who was alive 12 miles away - and a series of canceled checks shows a wife paid a monthly sum for 31 years to someone "dead" since 1979. How did a private marker, a cardboard box of checks, and a tenant named George Tate all hide one family’s secret for four decades?
In this episode, we follow the chain of events that began when a county surveyor found a lone granite marker on Birchcreek Road and led a granddaughter from Indianapolis into county records, apartment leases, and her…
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