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Dry Photo in the Flood: The Reunion of Claire Fontenot
Dry Photo in the Flood: The Reunion of Claire Fontenot
A bone-dry 8x10 photograph of a little girl knee-deep in floodwater ended a thirty-one-year search when a retired postman found it in an unlocked church storage annex; the image had a Texas phone number on the back that led straight to a woman who never stopped looking for her missing child. How could a dry picture, a handwritten number, and a secret birthmark reopen a case closed as a probable drowning?
In this episode, we follow the sequence of discoveries that connected a church in Denton, Texas, a shoebox kept for decades, and a woman…
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