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The shoes on the beach: how a voice stole a life

The shoes on the beach: how a voice stole a life

Black oxford lace-ups with double-knotted laces sit at the waterline of Pelican Flat Beach, North Carolina, a cedar shoe tree placed deliberately inside the left one. A man's hand put them there on July 13, 2019-but why would Ryan Coleman, a precise civil engineer, abandon his good shoes on the sand pointing toward the Atlantic before driving away in the dark?

In this episode, we follow Ryan's five-month correspondence with "Commander James James," the Coast Guard officer who asked the right technical questions before the voice became the most…

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