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The orange phone case: how a gift became evidence

The orange phone case: how a gift became evidence

A loan processor in Morrow Bluff, Tennessee receives a waterproof phone case as a gift from a new friend-bright orange, designed to survive submersion in water. James Norris doesn't spend time near water. Six weeks later, he places that phone inside the case, sets it on a dock railing above Calvert Creek, and drives away. Why would a man destroy his own phone to end a friendship?

In this episode, we trace James's routine-the gym schedule, the laminated tortoise feeding chart, the Sunday calls to his sister-and how a carefully constructed…

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