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Pinned by a Survey Stake: The Sneaker That Reopened Two Cold Cases
Pinned by a Survey Stake: The Sneaker That Reopened Two Cold Cases
A bleached white canvas sneaker, size eight, pinned to the earth by an aluminum survey stake, lay on a dry field for four years before a county surveyor found it at 9:47 a.m. on August 11, 2019 - and the shoe led to buried human remains eighteen inches below the surface. How did a survey stake become the only marker of a murder that connected two women, two counties, and a single unexpected name?
In this episode, we follow the sequence of discoveries from a routine boundary check to a DNA match that turned a missing-person…
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