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The Brother Cora Hid: 43 Letters Found in a Riverbox
The Brother Cora Hid: 43 Letters Found in a Riverbox
A rusted shoebox pulled from the Sequatchie River yielded forty-three perfectly preserved letters addressed to Cora Nix, postmarked between March 1957 and August 1963 - all signed “Earl.” Who was this Earl, why did Cora keep the letters hidden in a river for decades, and why did she list “parents deceased, no siblings” on her marriage certificate for sixty-five years?
In this episode, we follow the discovery of the box by fisherman Wayne Anderson and the small-town paperwork trail that led granddaughter Gail Rogers to open a mystery no one…
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