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The Smell From Room 14: A School's Quietly Erased Secret
The Smell From Room 14: A School's Quietly Erased Secret
A child's navy blazer, brass buttons untarnished and a sewn name inside, was dragged from a snowbank forty feet down Ellswick Road in 2009 - found in front of a long-closed prep school that had been vacant since 1998. A reporter spent nearly two years tracing that impossible garment to a sealed dorm room, a persistent odor in the summer of 1981, and a set of records someone deliberately erased - so what was the truth they tried to bury?
In this episode, we follow how a single blazer led a journalist into school archives, alumni…
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