The Mug on the Steps: Why a Tea Drinker Died at Dawn
The Mug on the Steps: Why a Tea Drinker Died at Dawn
A faintly warm ceramic mug on a stoop, steam still rising, and a man found palm-up on the floor - a case closed as an accidental fall in 1991 that left a single overlooked fact: he drank tea, not coffee. Thirty-one years later, untested rugs and a retired detective's note reopen a question no one answered at dawn: was this really an accident?
In this episode, we follow the chronological discoveries from the morning Marilyn Erickson found the mug to the 2022 cold-case review that sent evidence to the state lab; we cover the people, the…
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