Dead Man's Checkout: A Library Book Returned From Inside A Wall
Dead Man's Checkout: A Library Book Returned From Inside A Wall
A manila checkout card stamped November 14, 1971 named a borrower who had been dead since August 12, 1969 - and the book sat sealed inside a wall for thirty-two years. A 1958 Field Guide to North American Birds was recovered damp and swollen from a hidden cavity in the Bellard Public Library; one pencil circle on the ruby-throated hummingbird page matched Walter H. Freed's only mark. How did a book get checked out in a dead man's name and then vanish into a secret wall?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the…
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