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Shoe on the Center Line: How a Grandfather Lost Eight Desert Miles
Shoe on the Center Line: How a Grandfather Lost Eight Desert Miles
Heat that can kill an adult in hours, a lone size-two child's shoe placed upright on the yellow center line, and a retired hydrologist who knew the desert like the back of his hand - what happened in between? A precise surveyor-like marker, no tracks, and a Jeep that died with one convulsive shudder eight miles from the nearest paved road: who left the shoe and where was the child?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from a routine morning run and a 9-1-1 call to the empty desert scene and the family back at home…
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