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The Unread Letter That Named Her Killer After Forty Years

The Unread Letter That Named Her Killer After Forty Years

The discovery of a sealed envelope and a cracked Texas license in a burgundy purse found in open desert shattered a forty-year story of a voluntary disappearance; the unread letter in a consulate archive named a man tied to a truck crossing the border the day after she vanished. Who was Vernon Hicks, why did a deposition and a truck registration go unpursued, and how did one overlooked envelope sit unread for nearly four decades?

In this episode, we follow the documents, the dates, and the people left on the margins of an inactive file…

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