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The Shoe, The Key, and the Secret They Hid Nineteen Years

The Shoe, The Key, and the Secret They Hid Nineteen Years

A canvas shoe stood upright in an Illinois field for nineteen years with a brass house key tied inside its tongue - a detail that finally reopened a cold case and asked a single chilling question: who hides a key in a shoe and walks away? What that shoe, a size seven left, and a missing house key reveal about Kathleen Powell's last hours is a mystery that refuses to settle.

In this episode, we present the chain of events from the morning the shoe was found through the original investigation and the fresh eyes that turned the file over…

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