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The Purse in the Mesquite: What They Hid for Forty Years
The Purse in the Mesquite: What They Hid for Forty Years
The purse swallowed by a mesquite tree held a New Mexico driver’s license belonging to Sarah Farrell - a woman last seen in 1979 whose coat was left in her car on a night that dropped to 24°F. For forty years the official file said she left voluntarily and crossed into Mexico; what did that brass-clasped purse and a frozen cup of coffee really mean?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from Sarah’s last confirmed sighting leaving her grandmother’s house on December 4, 1979, to the discovery of the purse in 2019, and ask…
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