The Single Shoe in Frozen Clay: Who Buried Marilyn Pruitt?

True Crime: Killer Confessions · Sep 25, 2026 · 19m

The Single Shoe in Frozen Clay: Who Buried Marilyn Pruitt?

A single navy left pump, size seven, stood sole-down against a cedar fence post in frozen red clay six-tenths of a mile from the nearest road - with no matching shoe and no tracks. The shoe had not weathered, and thirty-one years later a strand of electrical wire in an evidence bag and a sealed drainage pipe would force investigators to rewrite this quiet cold case; who placed that shoe and why was it found upright by a county surveyor? What did the surveyor note about the fence post that no one asked until decades later?

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