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The Shoe in the Freezer: How a Fingernail Broke 31 Years of Silence

The Shoe in the Freezer: How a Fingernail Broke 31 Years of Silence

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The Shoe in the Freezer: How a Fingernail Broke 31 Years of Silence

A single brown leather flat was found upright on a concrete culvert thirty feet into the trees on February 9, 1993 - and that shoe sat in a garage box for thirty-one years while the woman it belonged to lay forty feet farther inside cottonwoods. What did that upright shoe, a frozen fingernail swab, and one volunteer’s rigid schedule together hide, and how did a 2024 forensic genealogist finally force the case open?

In this episode, you’ll hear the sequence of events from the last time Shannon Thorpe was seen alive to the discovery that reopened her file in 2024, and how preserved biological evidence and a consumer DNA kit led investigators back to questions the original probe left unresolved. How did a fingernail swab logged in 1993 become the key detail decades later?

Person: Shannon Thorpe
Date: February 9, 1993
Location: Reservoir east parking lot area, Aldermere (path and cottonwood stand)
Cause of death: Manual strangulation
Evidence logged: Fingernail swab and coat-collar swab sealed February 14, 1993 and stored in biological evidence freezer

- Shannon Thorpe was sixty-one years old and had been widowed since 1988.
- Her purse, found twenty feet from her body, contained $42 and her car keys; the cash was untouched.
- The medical examiner placed time of death between 5:00 and 9:00 p.m, on February 8, 1993.
- A single right-foot brown leather flat was found upright on the lip of a concrete drainage culvert thirty feet into the trees.
- Detective Arthur Crane identified suspect Vincent Carey within six weeks; Carey had been seen near the east lot twice the month before and had no alibi for the evening of February 8, 1993.

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