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A Surveyor Finds 47 Unread Letters: The Marcus Smith Exoneration
A Surveyor Finds 47 Unread Letters: The Marcus Smith Exoneration
A rusted mailbox and forty-seven sealed envelopes turned up on a gravel Ohio road after a county surveyor pulled over for a boundary dispute - letters written every month for ten years to a man who had been in prison the whole time. How did those letters survive unseen at a vacant farmhouse while Marcus Smith sat incarcerated 140 miles away, and what did they finally reveal about a conviction that lasted a decade?
In this episode, we follow the chain of small, ordinary decisions that left forty-seven letters unread: a surveyor…
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