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The Shoe in the Well: Why Calverton Stopped Saying Simpson
The Shoe in the Well: Why Calverton Stopped Saying Simpson
A single brown leather Mary Jane, size four, stood heel-down in an eighteen-foot dry well-placed, not fallen-and a town of decades refused to say the family name tied to it. What happens when a community's silence becomes its record, and why was the county historical office called instead of the sheriff?
In this episode, we follow the discovery in the summer of 1991 and the archival work that began in spring 2004 to trace the missing papers, interviews, and evasions surrounding a vanished six-year-old. What does the shoe, the…
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