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Locked Room, Painted Lies: How a Paint Label Saved Linda McCarthy

Locked Room, Painted Lies: How a Paint Label Saved Linda McCarthy

A single paint label became a life-or-death clue: a size seven canvas shoe floated in a frozen creek, and inside its toe was a zip-lock bag with seven words and a partial address that might point to sixty-two-year-old Linda McCarthy. Who left that shoe in Adder Creek, and how did a peeled paint label and a two-inch crack in a wall become the thread between a locked room and Linda's fate?

In this episode, we follow the timeline from the morning Dorothy Huang found Linda's unlocked back door to the discovery of the shoe in Adder…

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