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The Orange Fob: How One Object Rewrote a Murder Trial

The Orange Fob: How One Object Rewrote a Murder Trial

A bright orange foam key fob, designed to float, was photographed eighteen inches from a victim's outstretched hand in frozen mud six miles from the nearest body of water - and it became a lynchpin in a murder trial that still left its origin unknown. How did a flotation fob end up in a rural drainage ditch, and what did it do to the case against the accused?

In this episode, we lay out the sequence of evidence, testimony, and a forensic correction that forced the prosecution to rebuild its narrative from the ground up. Listen to how a…

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