The Dry Shoe at Dawn: How a Storm Hid a Killer's Return

The Dry Shoe at Dawn: How a Storm Hid a Killer's Return

A single dry navy-blue woman's dress shoe, size seven, sat on a field frozen under six millimeters of ice while everything else was sealed - and it had been placed after the storm ended. Who returned to Fenner Road after dawn, leaving that impossible shoe and vanishing into a thirty-year silence?

In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the morning the shoe was found through the ensuing investigation and trial, and trace the unanswered question of who came back to the scene after sunrise and why.

Person: Holly Evans Date: November 4, 1982 Location: Fenner Road / Quill Street, Dellwood Age: 31 Case: Missing person turned homicide investigation

- The ice storm began at 10:00 PM on November 3 and left six millimeters of ice across the field by 7:15 AM on November 4. - The shoe was a navy-blue low block heel, size seven, completely dry with no ice crystals on the leather. - Alan Allen logged the discovery call at 7:22 AM after descending a power pole on Fenner Road. - Two witnesses placed a white pickup on Fenner Road around 8:00 PM on November 3 and described a heavyset man nearby. - On June 14, 1983, both witnesses submitted written retractions saying they had been pressured to be more definite.

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