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Dry Receipt in a Frozen Glove: How a River Hid a Murder

Dry Receipt in a Frozen Glove: How a River Hid a Murder

Cold certainty: a frozen brown leather glove pulled from the Aldene River on January 9, 1973 contained a completely dry-cleaning receipt - dated January 7 and issued to Gordon Tate of 14 Aldene Mill Road - an impossibility that sat unnoticed in evidence for 31 years. What did a dry receipt inside a frozen glove mean, and how did it unravel a case otherwise written off as a voluntary disappearance?

In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the morning the glove was found through the long dormancy of the case in the sheriff’s…

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