The Tarpaulin, the Blood Type, and the Woman Freed Too Late
The Tarpaulin, the Blood Type, and the Woman Freed Too LateA single municipal tarpaulin with a bright red Parks Department logo was found folded over a dead woman in a dry cleaner’s back room - and the name tied to that tarp waited in a filing cabinet for eight years. A blood smear of type A-positive, shared by roughly one in three Americans, became the prosecution’s linchpin; how did a routine sign-out sheet become the missing piece that could have freed a woman sooner?In this episode, we tell the story as presented in the record: the scene at Prestige Cleaners, the investigative choices…
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