The Trotline Watch: Why a River Hook Exposed a Murder
The Trotline Watch: Why a River Hook Exposed a MurderA stainless-steel watch, still running and engraved with initials and a date, surfaced on the eighth hook of a trotline three days after a 24-year-old man vanished - the date window read fourteen and the watch belonged to the missing man who never took it off. How did that watch end up looped on a hook twelve inches below the Aldine River and what single mistake tied it to a disappearance no one had yet reported?In this episode, we follow the sequence of events from the last confirmed text at 7:48 AM to the discovery at 7:52 AM, tracing the…
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