The Bottle, the V‑Pattern, and the Woman Who Lost Nineteen Months
The Bottle, the V‑Pattern, and the Woman Who Lost Nineteen Months
The smell of smoke led Cynthia Richardson to a sixteen-ounce amber bottle with a cloth wick, uncharred and upright on dry ground - a small pool of amber liquid still at the bottom - and that bottle would eventually put the right person in prison. But before that, it cost another person nineteen months of her life. How did a V-shaped burn pattern, a floor sample, and a measuring tape end up deciding a jury's fate?
In this episode, we tell what the episode covers and trace the sequence of events from the fire on June 27 to the…
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