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The Missing Brunswick Ball: How a Bowling Clue Unraveled a Killer

The Missing Brunswick Ball: How a Bowling Clue Unraveled a Killer

A Fenwick student ID found dry and face up on a fisherman’s trotline led investigators to a missing man whose last confirmed sighting vanished in a thirty-eight-minute camera gap; a Brunswick 15-pound fingertip bowling ball later became the pivotal piece that produced a confession. How did a routine bowling night and a deliberately removed bowling ball connect a web spanning four counties and nine years?

In this episode, we follow the sequence of events from Wade Schmidt’s last known routines and the discovery of his ID to the…

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