The Dry Shoe That Sent an Innocent Woman to Prison
The Dry Shoe That Sent an Innocent Woman to Prison
A single dry shoe on a mossy rock should have stopped a murder conviction; instead it lay in the file, noted and ignored for nearly nine years while a woman went to prison. How did a clean-laced canvas tennis shoe, a gas station receipt stamped 11:47 p.m., and a degraded blood test all disappear from the narrative that put Peggy Reynolds behind bars?
In this episode, we present the facts from the case record and trace how routine evidence was set aside as investigators and prosecutors focused on one suspect. What role did the dry shoe, the…
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