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The Lake That Hid Her: How a Shoe Solved A Two-Year Secret

The Lake That Hid Her: How a Shoe Solved A Two-Year Secret

The chill of a lake kept a secret for decades: a leather pump, heel up in 15 centimeters of mud, held a nylon stocking with articulated foot bones - placed sometime after 1997 and uncovered in October 2022. Who knew exactly where to hide her so the water and silt would do the rest, and who finally looked at the evidence the right way?

In this episode, we tell what led from a property assessor's boot to a DNA match and why a sister's yearly genealogy subscription mattered; the episode follows the chain of physical evidence, cell pings…

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