The Birthday Card That Solved a Fugitive's Vanishing Act
The Birthday Card That Solved a Fugitive's Vanishing Act
A manhunt that spanned two states ended not with a blood trail or a phone ping but with a pink-and-blue birthday invitation sealed in a sandwich bag and tied to a trotline anchor in a flooded Missouri river - the card belonged to a seven-year-old whose party date Charles Stewart had promised never to miss. How did a fugitive who snapped his SIM card and left his wallet behind keep one single tangible thread that led officers to him?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from a bar parking lot altercation and a shattered skull to a…
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