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The Glasses on the Porch: How One Item Broke a Killer's Alibi

The Glasses on the Porch: How One Item Broke a Killer's Alibi

A single pair of wire-framed bifocal reading glasses, sealed in a zip-lock sandwich bag and placed centered on a porch railing post, sat in an evidence locker for eleven years before it collapsed an alibi and connected a man to a second victim. How did an object that wasn't dropped, forgotten or part of a struggle become the linchpin of a conviction?

In this episode, we follow the sequence of events from the April 8, 2011 attack through the tip that named a suspect, showing how small, deliberate anomalies in a house-an upside-down…

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