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The Coffee on the Roof and the Glasses That Screamed Murder · Mystery Stories and Unsolved Cases

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  Speaker 1: On the morning of August 20th, 2003, a silver two-door
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  Speaker 1: Honda sat alone in a truck stop, parking lot off
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  Speaker 1: Route 9 in Crestfield.
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  Speaker 2: The engine was cold.
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  Speaker 1: A cup of coffee sat on the roof, lid on,
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  Speaker 1: still half full. Inside, on the passenger seat, a woman's purse.
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  Speaker 1: On the floor, a flip phone, battery dead. Amy Boyd
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  Speaker 1: was 41 years old, and she was gone. The coffee
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  Speaker 1: was the detail that stopped people. You don't balance a
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  Speaker 1: cup on your roof and walk away. You do it
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  Speaker 1: for one reason. You need both hands for something else,
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  Speaker 1: something unexpected, something that didn't give you time to think twice.
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  Speaker 1: That question, what happened in that parking lot, would sit
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  Speaker 1: unanswered for.
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  Speaker 2: Nearly 20 years.
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  Speaker 1: Until a meter reader climbed down into a basement he'd
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  Speaker 1: checked before and found something that should not have been there.
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  Speaker 1: There is something particular about this case that resists easy summary.
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  Speaker 1: It isn't just that it took two decades to solve.
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  Speaker 1: It's that the answer, when it finally came, arrived through
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  Speaker 1: a pair of folded glasses on a pipe valve and
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  Speaker 1: through a man who had been carrying those glasses in
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  Speaker 1: his possession for 19 years. What he did with them
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  Speaker 1: in July of 2022 set in motion a chain of
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  Speaker 1: events that would close not one case, but three.
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  Speaker 2: The coffee on the roof.
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  Speaker 1: The glasses on the valve, those two details are connected
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  Speaker 1: by a distance of 12 miles and a gap of
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  Speaker 1: 19 years.
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  Speaker 2: By the time this story ends, you.
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  Speaker 1: Will understand exactly how Amy Boyd was the kind of
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  Speaker 1: person a community knows without realizing how much it depends
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  Speaker 1: on them. She had lived in Crestfield, Kettner County, for years,
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  Speaker 1: working rotating shifts as a licensed practical nurse at Kessler
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  Speaker 1: Memorial Hospital. the sort of schedule that requires a particular discipline,
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  Speaker 1: a particular reliability. Colleagues at Kessler described her as someone
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  Speaker 1: who showed up, not just physically, the kind of presence
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  Speaker 1: that steadied a room. She was 52 years old in
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  Speaker 1: 2023 when.
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  Speaker 2: She was finally found.
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  Speaker 1: In August of 2003, she was 41. Her divorce from
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  Speaker 1: Dennis Boyd had been civil, mutual.
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  Speaker 2: Two children.
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  Speaker 1: Reese, who stayed local, and Patrick, who had settled in Columbus.
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  Speaker 1: The arrangement of her days after the divorce had a
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  Speaker 1: quiet structure to it. Work, family, a Tuesday night ritual
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  Speaker 1: she had kept for four years. Every Tuesday evening, Amy
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  Speaker 1: drove to the community center in Crestfield for a ceramics class.
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  Speaker 1: The instructor was Helen Voss, who remembered her students the
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  Speaker 1: way good teachers do. By their habits, their small acts
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  Speaker 1: of kindness, the things they brought in when someone had
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  Speaker 1: a birthday, Amy brought a lemon cake more than once.
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  Speaker 1: The last class Amy Boyd ever attended was Tuesday, August 12th, 2003.
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  Speaker 1: She stayed to help stack the chairs. She left at 9.15
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  Speaker 1: in the evening. Seven days later, she was gone. The
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  Speaker 1: night of August 19th was a Tuesday as well. Though
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  Speaker 1: there was no class that week, Amy had driven to
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  Speaker 1: Springvale to visit her brother and was making the return
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  Speaker 1: trip to Crestfield along Route 9. She had a 6
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  Speaker 1: o'clock shift at Kessler Memorial the next morning. She stopped
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  Speaker 1: at the truck stop on Route 9 at approximately 10.40
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  Speaker 1: in the evening to buy coffee for the drive. That
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  Speaker 1: is the last confirmed moment anyone can place Amy Boyd alive.
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  Speaker 1: By the following morning, her car was still in that
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  Speaker 1: parking lot. the purse undisturbed, the phone dead on the floor,
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  Speaker 1: and on the roof, a coffee cup that had never
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  Speaker 1: been brought inside, the Kettner County Sheriff's Office.
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  Speaker 2: Opened the investigation immediately.
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  Speaker 1: The lead detective, Stan Purvis, built a case file that
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  Speaker 1: would eventually reach 640 pages. Almost every page pointed in
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  Speaker 1: one direction. Dennis Boyd, the ex-husband, who had remarried within
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  Speaker 1: the year. His alibi was checked, verified, and checked again.
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  Speaker 1: It held every time. George Slater's name did not appear
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  Speaker 1: in that file, not once. Purvis acknowledged years later in
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  Speaker 1: a recorded interview that the investigation had neglected what he
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  Speaker 1: called the stranger angle. By 2005, the case was cold.
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  Speaker 1: It would stay that way for 17 years until a
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  Speaker 1: woman in Dalloway County was handed a 40-page report about
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  Speaker 1: a pair of glasses no one could explain, and decided
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  Speaker 1: that the first question worth asking was one nobody in
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  Speaker 1: Kettner County had ever thought to ask. What was Amy
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  Speaker 1: Boyd doing in Dalloway County? Angela Holmes read 640 pages
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  Speaker 1: over a long weekend. She finished on Monday morning and
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  Speaker 1: wrote one sentence.
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  Speaker 2: In her notes.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody asked what Amy Boyd was doing in Dalloway County.
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  Speaker 1: That question did not exist in Stan Purvis's file. It
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  Speaker 1: could not exist there, because in 2003, nobody knew Amy
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  Speaker 1: Boyd had ever crossed into Dalloway County. Her car was
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  Speaker 1: found in Kettner County. Her life was in Kettner County.
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  Speaker 1: The investigation lived entirely inside that border. Holmes requested the
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  Speaker 1: Dalloway County road records for Route 9 on the night
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  Speaker 1: of August 19, 2003. Then she pulled dispatch logs for
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  Speaker 1: every tow. and roadside service call within five miles of
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  Speaker 1: the truck stop. She was looking for anything that did
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  Speaker 1: not belong. She found it on page three. A private
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  Speaker 1: towing company out of Crestfield had logged a call at.
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  Speaker 2: 11.17 that night.
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  Speaker 1: A beige pickup with a flat tire, approximately two miles
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  Speaker 1: east of the truck stop on Route 9. The registered owner,
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  Speaker 1: George Slater, 31 years old, Plover Road, Garnett, Dalloway County.
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  Speaker 1: The driver sent to the scene was Pete Swick. He
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  Speaker 1: had been running that tow route for 11 years, and
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  Speaker 1: still was. Swick arrived to find the pickup sitting on
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  Speaker 1: the shoulder. The rear tire was flat. The spare had
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  Speaker 1: already been pulled from under the bed, and was leaning
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  Speaker 1: against the rear bumper, ready to be fitted.
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  Speaker 2: Slater was not there. Swick waited 20 minutes. He called out.
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  Speaker 2: He walked the shoulder in both directions. Nothing. He hooked
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  Speaker 2: the truck and towed it back to the yard. Slater
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  Speaker 2: came to collect it two days later and paid in cash.
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  Speaker 2: No card, no receipt requested. That image sat in a
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  Speaker 2: dispatch log for 19 years. A truck on a dark
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  Speaker 2: road with a spare tire already out. A man who
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  Speaker 2: was nowhere to be found.
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  Speaker 1: Holmes pulled the property records for Dalloway County next. She
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  Speaker 1: was searching for any address connected to George Slater within
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  Speaker 1: a reasonable radius of Route 9. Fenwick Street came up
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  Speaker 1: inside four minutes. From August 2001 through September 2003, a
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  Speaker 1: tenant named George Slater had rented a single-family house in
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  Speaker 1: Grover's Mill Township, Dalloway County. Rent paid in postal money orders.
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  Speaker 1: The landlord, Harold Fitch, had seen him in person no
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  Speaker 1: more than four or five times in two years. When
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  Speaker 1: Slater left in September 2003, he left no forwarding address.
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  Speaker 1: the house on Fenwick Street, the same house where Wayne
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  Speaker 1: Thorpe had descended into a below-grade utility space six weeks
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  Speaker 1: earlier and found a pair of women's glasses folded neatly
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  Speaker 1: on top of a shut-off valve. Holmes cross-referenced the dates.
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  Speaker 1: Slater's tenancy ended in September 2003. Amy Boyd had disappeared
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  Speaker 1: on August 19, 2003. The gap between those two dates
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  Speaker 1: was less than six weeks.
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  Speaker 2: She had her radius... She had her timeline. She had
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  Speaker 2: a name. The glasses had already been matched. Burgundy frames. Bifocals.
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  Speaker 2: A notch in the left arm near the hinge. Prescription.
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  Speaker 1: Right eye plus 3.25. Left eye plus 1.75.
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  Speaker 2: Moderate astigmatism.
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  Speaker 1: The forensic optometrist hired by the Dalloway County Sheriff's Office
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  Speaker 1: had compared them to the prescription records in Amy Boyd's
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  Speaker 1: missing persons file from Kettner County.
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  Speaker 2: Conclusive.
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  Speaker 1: But Holmes understood something about glasses. People do not place glasses.
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  Speaker 1: They set them down in familiar spaces. They leave them
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  Speaker 1: on nightstands, on kitchen counters, in the same spot every night,
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  Speaker 1: out of habit. You do not fold your glasses and
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  Speaker 1: place them on a shut-off valve in a utility room
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  Speaker 1: of a house. you are renting unless you had a
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  Speaker 1: reason to be in that utility room. And you do
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  Speaker 1: not leave them there for 19 years unless you forgot
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  Speaker 1: you had them, unless you didn't. There was a second
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  Speaker 1: question Holmes kept returning to. The utility space had been
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  Speaker 1: sealed by a sheet of plywood after Slater left. New
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  Speaker 1: tenants had moved in by 2014 and had never gone
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  Speaker 1: below grade. Wayne Thorpe's own log book showed a July
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  Speaker 1: 2020 to visit to that same address. where he had
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  Speaker 1: noted low flow and possible sediment, but had recorded nothing unusual.
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  Speaker 2: The glasses were not there in July.
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  Speaker 1: They appeared between July and August 14th, 2022.
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  Speaker 2: Someone had gone back.
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  Speaker 1: Holmes and Detective Chris Malone from Waring County formed a
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  Speaker 1: joint task force within two weeks of her identifying the
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  Speaker 1: corridor pattern. Three women missing or found dead along a
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  Speaker 1: stretch of rural highway running through four counties, all in August,
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  Speaker 1: all between 2001 and 2007. One recovered in Waring County
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  Speaker 1: in 2006, homicide unsolved. Two others unaccounted for, including Amy Boyd.
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  Speaker 1: Slater by then was working as a dispatcher at Corrigan
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  Speaker 1: Logistics in Millport. He had stopped driving routes years earlier.
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  Speaker 1: He was 50 years old. He had been, for 19 years, invisible.
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  Speaker 1: The search warrant for his address in Millport was executed
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  Speaker 1: in November 2022. Picture the inside of that storage unit
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  Speaker 1: for a moment. Rows of boxes labeled the way people
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  Speaker 1: label things they intend to forget.
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  Speaker 2: Tool manuals. Old tax records. Miscellaneous.
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  Speaker 1: The second search warrant covered a storage unit registered not
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  Speaker 1: to Slater but to a former girlfriend in Millport. Inside
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  Speaker 1: a cardboard box marked Miss Tools, investigators found a sealed
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  Speaker 1: Ziploc bag. Inside the bag, a lock of hair, a
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  Speaker 1: copper bracelet, with a small engraved tag stamped with the
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  Speaker 1: initials A.B. and a piece of notebook paper folded once,
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  Speaker 1: with a date written in blue ink. August 19th, 2003.
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  Speaker 1: The hair was submitted for DNA comparison against a reference
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  Speaker 1: sample from Reese Boyd. The result was conclusive. Everything built
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  Speaker 1: toward one shape. A man who had been two miles
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  Speaker 1: from the truck stop that night with a flat tire
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  Speaker 1: and a spare already out a man who rented a
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  Speaker 1: house in the county where the glasses were found. A
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  Speaker 1: man who had kept objects from that night, kept them,
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  Speaker 1: carried them, stored them under someone else's name for 19 years.
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  Speaker 1: But here is what did not fit that shape. George
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  Speaker 1: Slater had gone back, not in 2004, not in 2010.
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  Speaker 1: He went back in the summer of 2020, too, walked
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  Speaker 1: into a house he had not rented in 19 years.
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  Speaker 1: descended into a utility space that had been sealed and forgotten,
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  Speaker 1: and placed the glasses on the shutoff valve, folded, deliberate.
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  Speaker 2: Then he left.
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  Speaker 1: But why? Why go back after 19 years? When Holmes
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  Speaker 1: told him about Thorpe during the interrogation, Slater paused. He
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  Speaker 1: asked how they had found the glasses. Holmes told him.
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  Speaker 1: Slater said he had returned to Fenwick Street in July
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  Speaker 1: of 2022. He said he was passing through the area,
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  Speaker 1: Investigators were never able to confirm that. He said he
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  Speaker 1: had carried the glasses on him for 19 years and
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  Speaker 1: placed them himself. He said he did not know why
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  Speaker 1: he had finally left them. Then he said he wanted
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  Speaker 1: to talk about the others. The obvious reading of what
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  Speaker 1: Slater did on Fenwick Street is that a man near
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  Speaker 1: the end of a long concealment felt something shift and
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  Speaker 1: made a choice. But that reading requires believing the glasses
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  Speaker 1: were an accident of conscience. a weight he could no
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  Speaker 1: longer carry. The evidence does not confirm that. It confirms
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  Speaker 1: only that he returned, that he placed them, and that
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  Speaker 1: Thorpe found them, six weeks later. What it confirms beyond
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  Speaker 1: any doubt is this. Amy Boyd's glasses survived, 19 years
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  Speaker 1: in the possession of the man who took her. A
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  Speaker 1: forensic optometrist matched them to her prescription. A DNA test
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  Speaker 1: matched the hair to her daughter. A handwritten date on
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  Speaker 1: a folded piece of paper. matched the night she disappeared.
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  Speaker 1: The corridor pattern connected three women across four counties. The
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  Speaker 1: Joint Task Force worked through the winter. In March 2023,
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  Speaker 1: searchers located Amy Boyd's remains in a wooded drainage area
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  Speaker 1: 12 miles from Fenwick Street. Dental records made the identification.
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  Speaker 1: She had been there since 2003. In the spring of
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  Speaker 1: that same year, two additional sets of remains were recovered,
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  Speaker 1: one in Waring County, one in Harsin County, following locations
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  Speaker 1: Slater provided in his confession. Three jurisdictions brought charges. The
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  Speaker 1: trials did not last long. In Dalloway County, Judge Patricia
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  Speaker 1: Sorrell heard the sentencing arguments in full. The defense presented
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  Speaker 1: mental health mitigations. Judge Sorrell rejected them. She imposed consecutive
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  Speaker 1: sentences across all three cases, 110 years total. George Slater
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  Speaker 1: was 51 years old when she read the sentence aloud.
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  Speaker 1: He will not leave prison. The case status is closed.
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  Speaker 1: The convictions are in force. No appeals have altered the outcome.
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  Speaker 1: What remained open for the families was something no sentencing
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  Speaker 1: can reach. Reese Boyd attended the hearing. Her brother Patrick
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  Speaker 1: drove from Columbus. They sat together when Judge Sorrell spoke.
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  Speaker 1: What they heard was a number. What they carried out
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  Speaker 1: of that courtroom was everything the number could not account for.
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  Speaker 1: There is a detail from the investigation that stays with
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  Speaker 1: this story long after the legal proceedings end. Angela Holmes
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  Speaker 1: spent the weekend after receiving Thorpe's report reading 640 pages
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  Speaker 1: of the original Kettner County file.
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  Speaker 2: She reached the end on a Monday morning.
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  Speaker 1: Her conclusion was a single question that nobody in the
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  Speaker 1: original investigation had thought to ask. What was Amy Boyd
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  Speaker 1: doing in Dalloway County? That question took 19 years to
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  Speaker 1: become possible. It became possible because a meter reader noticed
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  Speaker 1: that a pair of glasses had not been there the
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  Speaker 1: month before. The original investigation had fixed its focus almost
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  Speaker 1: entirely on Dennis Boyd, Amy's ex-husband. Detectives verified his alibi repeatedly.
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  Speaker 1: They returned to him again and again. While the actual
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  Speaker 1: answer sat in a property lease record, a tow truck log,
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  Speaker 1: and a storage unit registered to someone else's name. Stan Purvis,
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  Speaker 1: the lead detective, acknowledged in a recorded interview years later
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  Speaker 1: that the investigation had neglected what he called the stranger angle.
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  Speaker 1: That admission does not undo the lost years. It confirms
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  Speaker 1: only that the angle existed and was never seriously pursued.
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  Speaker 1: George Slater used the same method across the same corridor
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  Speaker 1: across at least six years. A broken-down vehicle, a rural road, August,
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  Speaker 1: when freight traffic peaks and a man with a reason
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  Speaker 1: to be anywhere on that route draws no attention. He
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  Speaker 1: rented short-term properties in cash equivalents, moved between counties, and
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  Speaker 1: left no obvious thread connecting him to any of the
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  Speaker 1: women who disappeared.
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  Speaker 2: The thread existed.
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  Speaker 1: It ran through lease agreements, a tow company's dispatch log,
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  Speaker 1: and 19 years of silence. Holmes found it in a weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Helen Voss. Amy's ceramics instructor kept the crooked bowl for years.
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  Speaker 1: It was the last piece Amy made in class, the
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday before she disappeared. Voss could not throw it away.
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  Speaker 1: She said she did not know exactly why. She kept
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  Speaker 1: it on a shelf. After the identification in March 2023,
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  Speaker 1: Reese Boyd went to collect it. That bowl was made
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  Speaker 1: on August 12, 2003. Amy Boyd carried a lemon cake
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  Speaker 1: to class that night, helped stack the chairs, and walked.
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  Speaker 2: Out at 9.15.
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  Speaker 1: Seven days later, she stopped for coffee.
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  Speaker 2: On Route 9 and did not come home.
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  Speaker 1: She was a licensed practical nurse who worked rotating shifts
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  Speaker 1: at Kessler Memorial.
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  Speaker 2: She had two children.
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  Speaker 1: She had driven to her brother's house in Springvale and
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  Speaker 1: was heading back. She had a six o'clock shift the
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  Speaker 1: next morning. None of that should have ended on a
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  Speaker 1: rural road in Dalloway County. The glasses sat in a
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  Speaker 1: basement on Fenwick Street for weeks, then traveled with George
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  Speaker 1: Slater for 19 years. He carried them through two decades
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  Speaker 1: of ordinary life, dispatch work, daily routine, the accumulation of time,
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  Speaker 1: daily routine, the accumulation of time, until one day in
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  Speaker 1: July of 2022, he drove back to Grovers Mill Township
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  Speaker 1: and left them on a shutoff valve in a subgrade crawlspace.
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  Speaker 2: He folded the arms. He set them down. He left.
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  Speaker 1: Six weeks later, Wayne Thorpe climbed down and found them.
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  Speaker 1: There is something in this sequence that resists a clean explanation,
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  Speaker 1: not in the legal sense. The evidence against Slater is
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  Speaker 1: conclusive and the convictions are final. But in the human sense,
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  Speaker 1: the question of why a man carries a pair of
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  Speaker 1: reading glasses for 19 years and then returns them to
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  Speaker 1: the last place they were hidden is not a question
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  Speaker 1: the confession fully answers. Slater said he did not know
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  Speaker 1: why he finally left them. That may be true, it
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  Speaker 1: may be the only honest thing he said. What the
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  Speaker 1: glasses answered, regardless of the reason they were left, is everything.
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  Speaker 1: Amy Boyd had a prescription of plus 3.25 in one
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  Speaker 1: eye and plus 1.75 in the other, with moderate astigmatism.
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  Speaker 1: A forensic optometrist matched those numbers to the burgundy frames
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  Speaker 1: found on Fenwick Street. A nick in the acetate near
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  Speaker 1: the left hinge matched the description in her missing persons file.
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  Speaker 1: A DNA test matched a strand of hair from a
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  Speaker 1: sealed storage unit to a sample provided by her daughter.
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  Speaker 1: 20 years collapsed into a single morning's lab report. The
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  Speaker 1: case is closed. The sentences are in force. Two more
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  Speaker 1: families in Waring County and Harsin County received... answers they
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: had waited years to receive. Angela Holmes returned to her caseload.
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  Speaker 1: Wayne Thorpe still reads the same meter route. And on
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  Speaker 1: a shelf somewhere, there is a crooked ceramic bowl that
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  Speaker 1: Amy Boyd made on the last ordinary Tuesday of her life.
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  Speaker 1: The person who kept it could not explain why she
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  Speaker 1: never threw it away. She kept it because some things
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  Speaker 1: resist being discarded, even when you cannot say exactly what
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  Speaker 1: they mean. That is the closest thing this story has
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  Speaker 1: to mercy.
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