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The Chair in the River: The Missing Woman Who Wasn't Drowned
The Chair in the River: The Missing Woman Who Wasn't Drowned
A chill that feels like nearly being pulled under: for sixty-two years a child's chair anchored in a shallow bend of the Orreck River carried a town's mourning - and a lie. The chair bore a tag dated June 19, 1952 with the initials "D.P." and "do not remove," but the woman it supposedly memorialized did not drown; so what story had an entire county been telling itself?
In this episode, we follow how a birdwatcher found the chair and how a local historian pursued the records that should have existed, revealing a mismatch between…
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