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Stranger Recognizes Her Own Birthmark: The Search for Marta
Stranger Recognizes Her Own Birthmark: The Search for Marta
A single toddler-sized patent-leather Mary Jane found in a ditch in Caldwell County set off a chain of calls that reached a woman who had waited 31 years for any news. The clue that cracked the case was a 4-centimeter port-wine birthmark on the left shoulder blade recorded in a Cologne transfer document - but how did that detail survive floods, borders and decades of paperwork? Which path connected that annotation to a life rebuilt in Ohio?
In this episode, we follow the documents, the people who kept them, and the persistent search…
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