The Hidden Shoe: Why the Culvert Held $4,700 and Secrets

True Crime: Killer Confessions · Jul 23, 2026 · 16m

The Hidden Shoe: Why the Culvert Held $4,700 and Secrets

A single white canvas sneaker, size two with a pink stripe, hid four thousand seven hundred dollars folded inside and sat eighteen inches inside a dry culvert - the shoe belonged to nine-year-old Monica Vogel, missing for eight days. Forty-six years later the odd placement and a degraded partial fingerprint would become the only trail to an answer no one expected: how did a stranger know exactly where and when Monica would be alone?

In this episode, we tell how a ransom, a return, and a sealed evidence box left a conspicuous object and…