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The Receipt in the Shoe: How a Quiet Man Hid a Murder
The Receipt in the Shoe: How a Quiet Man Hid a Murder
A single canvas sneaker half-buried on County Road 7 held a dry-cleaning receipt addressed to a man who "had no business being anywhere near that road," and the county still ruled the young woman found in the reservoir a suicide. The paper trail-notes in a coroner's file, a witness who saw a dark pickup at 8:00 p.m., and a receipt folded into a shoe-survived for thirty-one years; what did investigators miss and why did those records sit in boxes for decades?
In this episode, we tell the story using the surviving record and witness accounts…
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