Dry Red Boot on a Deadbolted Door: The Alice Isom Knot
Dry Red Boot on a Deadbolted Door: The Alice Isom KnotA single dry red rubber child's boot, size four with a yellow duck on the toe, stood upright on a soaking concrete apron beside a deadbolted door - despite two days of April rain and a fence line that was intact. The boot matches the only left boot listed in a 1963 coroner's file for an eight-year-old who died in a factory fire; how did a fragment of that tragedy reappear on the same footprint decades later?In this episode, we follow the documented anomalies at Kellner Stamping and the archival trail that links a found boot to an unsolved…
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