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A Steel Box Buried for Thirty Years: The Hughes Family Secret
A Steel Box Buried for Thirty Years: The Hughes Family Secret
An old forest-green steel lockbox surfaced after thirty years buried behind a decommissioned postal annex, containing eleven first-class envelopes all slit, resealed with yellowed tape, and postmarked between September 1988 and March 1991 - who read them, and why were they buried? What single envelope inside rewrites everything the Hughes family believed about the man who left in 1988?
In this episode, we bring together the discovery by a county road-grader operator, the paperwork from the Postal Service Office of Inspector…
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