The Three Words That Could Free a Man-or Send Him to Prison
The Three Words That Could Free a Man-or Send Him to PrisonThe image of a beagle stopping at a culvert, uncovering a tool bag with a highlighted insurance policy and three blue-ink words - "Check the date" - turns a morning walk into the hinge of a criminal case. One bag, a $214,000 claim, and a server log entry could decide whether a 26-year-old restaurateur goes to prison or walks free; whose handwriting were those three words, and why were they there?In this episode, we trace the discovery and the evidence that followed: the bag found on November 14, 2019, the incendiary-origin report, the…
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