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A Yellow Boot Stands Alone: The Jennifer Petersen Reunion

A Yellow Boot Stands Alone: The Jennifer Petersen Reunion

Fear and grief collide in a marshy photograph: a single dry size four yellow rain boot stands upright in six inches of standing water after nine days of rain in Portervale mudflats - and that image pulls a reunification worker back into a fourteen-year-old missing-baby file. How did a lone child’s boot photographed by a shorebird photographer become the hinge that might reopen a case closed after a levee failure?

In this episode, we follow the chain of events set off by Howard Williams’s photograph and the decisions Emily Cook made…

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