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After 23 years inside a harbor wall, a dead man's watch was still keeping time

After 23 years inside a harbor wall, a dead man's watch was still keeping time

The idea that a watch could survive twenty-three years sealed inside a granite harbor wall and still tick is chilling enough, but that moving second hand was the first visible thread in a case that hid a man’s fate in plain sight. What else sat inside that cavity at Tidewater Wharf, and why had it been left undisturbed for more than two decades?

In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events from September 1996 to the storm-surge reveal in September 2019, the original investigation’s conclusions, and the…

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