The Sneaker in the Septic: How One Memo Freed the Wrongly Accused
The Sneaker in the Septic: How One Memo Freed the Wrongly AccusedA dry, tied white leather sneaker was found at the bottom of a sealed septic tank on August 9, 2019 - a shoe that should not have been able to enter the tank without human placement. That single shoe helped convict a woman who spent fifty-eight days in jail; what finally turned the case came from a two-page memo written by a paralegal no one asked for. Who wrote that memo, and how did it undo weeks of investigative certainty?In this episode, you will hear the sequence of events from the discovery of the sneaker to the arrest of…
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