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The Backpack That Lied: How They Kept Dale Mason for 23 Days

The Backpack That Lied: How They Kept Dale Mason for 23 DaysThe first image is a perfectly packed backpack - upright, buckled, compression straps cinched - yet Dale Mason’s keys, phone and ID were nowhere to be found. A paperboy found the bag two hundred yards from Dale’s unlocked apartment on June 9, 2011; twenty-three days of searching, a confession and a conviction followed. Who placed that staged bag and why did someone watch Dale for three weeks before taking him?In this episode, we walk through the timeline from the last normal call Dale made to his mother to the discovery of the staged…

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