The Handbag in the Culvert That Convicted a Killer
The Handbag in the Culvert That Convicted a Killer
A leather handbag sat upright in a culvert for forty years with its clasp still closed, holding a laminated employee badge that named Janet Schmidt and forty-three dollars in cash. That single object contradicted four decades of official records that said she left town voluntarily - so how did a purse in a New Mexico nature preserve become the hinge for reopening a cold case and sending a man to prison?
In this episode, we lay out the timeline and the physical evidence recovered from the culvert that forced investigators to revisit two…
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