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The Deed at the Bottom of Cassidy Lake: A Hidden Family Revealed
The Deed at the Bottom of Cassidy Lake: A Hidden Family Revealed
A fisherman pulled a green metal box from Cassidy Lake in December 1989 and inside was a thirty-one-year-old property deed naming a man who "should not have existed." The deed was sealed in a fireproof case, tied to a cinder block, and recorded under a legal alias that linked two counties-so who was the double life hiding in plain sight?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the moment Paul Thorpe found the box through the paper trail that connects Holt County and Merritt County, and we follow the people left…
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