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The Library Card Stamped After a Man's Death: 1993 Mystery
The Library Card Stamped After a Man's Death: 1993 Mystery
A faded checkout card stamped October 14, 1993 bears the name of Leonard Pruitt - a librarian who died March 9, 1992, making the stamp exactly nineteen months after his death. How did a library card get stamped long after his burial, and why did a returned box go unexamined for over a year?
In this episode, you will hear the sequence of small, ordinary actions that led to the card resurfacing in a flooded basement and the documentary journalist who traced three separate threads back to their sources. What ordinary mistakes and quiet…
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