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The Mason Jar Secret: How a 1983 Letter Unmasked a Killer

The Mason Jar Secret: How a 1983 Letter Unmasked a Killer

A sealed quart mason jar, hidden in a pine root forty feet from a trailhead, contained a June 3, 1983 letter that named the exact color of a blouse and the three-inch painted cross on a shale stone left in a victim’s open palm - details never released to the public. Who placed that jar near a trail less than a year old, and how did one private letter reopen a case cold for twenty years?

In this episode, we follow the discovery, the forensic findings, and the connection between two crimes revealed by a single jar and a brittle…

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