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A closed handbag inside a frozen culvert - the clasp that ended a man's silence

A closed handbag inside a frozen culvert - the clasp that ended a man's silence

A closed clasp stopped a land surveyor at 7:40 AM in 23°F air and later became the single physical detail that undercut a cell-tower location in a murder trial. The burgundy leather bag was pushed three feet into an 18-inch concrete culvert, containing Paula Decker’s ID, two credit cards, and $41-so who placed it there, and why was her phone never recovered?

In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from Paula Decker’s last confirmed call with her sister to the discovery of the handbag, and we trace how one…

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