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The Basil Marker on the Porch: How a Garden Revealed Murder
The Basil Marker on the Porch: How a Garden Revealed Murder
A single white ceramic marker reading BASIL sat on the top porch step with no dew on it the morning a papergirl found Sarah Zimmerman missing - moved after 5:00 AM on September 14, 2011. That small, out-of-place object led investigators from a cold kitchen and a full carafe to tire tracks, a storage unit, and ultimately a confession; but how did a garden marker become the thread that unraveled everything?
In this episode, we follow the sequence of observable facts: Sarah’s precise routines, the moved marker, the kneeler photographed…
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