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The Ledger on Linden Span: Why Mabel Was Buried Unnamed
The Ledger on Linden Span: Why Mabel Was Buried Unnamed
Cold and quietly uncanny: a spiral-bound notebook appears on the railing of a condemned, padlocked bridge with no footprints in two-day-old snow, and inside is a ledger that rewrites a 114-year-old town legend. Why did the inquest into a woman found frozen under Linden Span record her only as "M. Gardner" and close the case in four pages?
In this episode, we walk through the notebook found by county surveyor Debra Turner on January 9, 2011, the sparse four-page inquest from January 1897, and the community memories tied to Linden Span to…
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