The Confession That Was Lost in a Storm Drain-Found 20 Years Later
The Confession That Was Lost in a Storm Drain-Found 20 Years Later
Cold and bone-dry inside a culvert on Route 7 was a June 14, 2003 postmarked envelope that never reached the Portage County Sheriff's Office - it contained a two-page blue ballpoint confession describing a kitchen, a game show on TV, and a blue ceramic rooster beside an east-facing window. Who wrote a detailed admission of Sherry Patterson’s strangling and then believed for twenty years that the letter had been delivered and ignored?
In this episode, we follow how a road grader blade at 6:15 a.m. on February 9, 2023, dislodged…
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