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The Two Sneakers in the Drain: What Patton Mills Hid for 16 Days

The Two Sneakers in the Drain: What Patton Mills Hid for 16 Days

A quiet town watched a familiar routine break: two white New Balance sneakers, size seven, placed heel to toe and dry inside a storm drain while the surrounding sidewalk was soaked from last night’s rain-clearly set there before the storm ended. Who planned this careful placement, and what did it mean for the woman who vanished on her usual eleven-block walk?

In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from Christine Jones leaving the Sunrise Grille at 8:51 AM on Tuesday, May 3, 2011, to the discovery that made investigators…

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