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A Tin Can in a Soybean Field: The Search for Mateo Vargas
A Tin Can in a Soybean Field: The Search for Mateo Vargas
Something sealed in a Café Bustelo can turned up in a soybean field in Calloway Township, Indiana on May 14, 2019 - a Polaroid labeled "Mateo y Tomas, Junio 1987" that linked a woman in Indianapolis to a boy left behind in Barranquilla three decades earlier. How did a photo wrapped in wax paper and buried under soil connect Sandra Vargas to a search that crossed continents and stalled for years?
In this episode, we follow the discovery and the quieter, determined search that followed, from Jean Burns finding the tin with a metal…
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