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The Missing Shoe: How a Dry Canvas Unraveled a Kidnapper's Alibi

The Missing Shoe: How a Dry Canvas Unraveled a Kidnapper's Alibi

A dry, powder-blue canvas sneaker size seven hooked four feet above the waterline should have been soaked after three days of rain; instead its inside was bone dry and the laces tied in a childhood double knot. That single shoe and a forty-seven minute blackout on a parking-level security feed became the thin thread linking a missing billing specialist to a deliberate device - but how did a shoe on a piling expose a planned erasure?

In this episode, we tell what happened from the morning a trotline found a shoe to the discovery…

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