The Shoe on the Rock: How One Library Card Broke a Town's Alibi
The Shoe on the Rock: How One Library Card Broke a Town's AlibiA single laminated library card tucked inside a white canvas shoe on a rock forty feet from the nearest path redirected a criminal investigation and nearly destroyed an innocent man's life - so who put it there, and why would someone carry a shoe into knee-deep water or lower it down an eight-foot slate ledge? The card bore the name Peggy McCarthy, a 22-year-old nursing student and pharmacy worker last seen at 10:08 PM on August 6, 2003; what seemed like a tidy clue became the central, unresolved question that split the town.In…
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