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The Boot in the Current: How a River Revealed Her Trail
The Boot in the Current: How a River Revealed Her Trail
Cold, precise, and inexplicable: a teal women's size eight boot stood upright in 18 inches of January current, dry inside, four miles downstream from the last confirmed marker - who put it there and why did Shannon Armstrong vanish for five days with methodical preparations? What the boot, a folded paper map, and a fallen trail sign together reveal about a wilderness that doesn't need a villain to become lethal.
In this episode, we follow the timeline from Shannon's last text to the moment a fisherman found the boot, tracing the search…
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