The Paper Wristband That Led Marshals Two Hundred Miles West
The Paper Wristband That Led Marshals Two Hundred Miles West
They found a courthouse visitor wristband in frozen mud on Route 48 in Macon County, Illinois - eleven days after a federal trial ended in Ohio - and the strip still showed the case number and trial date. How did a paper band that should have been meaningless point deputies two hundred miles toward where Ross Smith had gone, and what did it reveal about the man who vanished in under three minutes?
In this episode, we follow how marshals traced routine and small traces to map a disappearance: the paper wristband, the unlocked…
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