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The Lost Shoe at the Wash: Why the River Returned a Child's Step

The Lost Shoe at the Wash: Why the River Returned a Child's Step

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The Lost Shoe at the Wash: Why the River Returned a Child's Step

A child's canvas sneaker, boy's size four and unnaturally clean, sat wedged in a willow root on the eastern bank of Teller River after the river had not reached that root fork in twenty-two days - how did an unworn shoe, missing for twenty-three years, turn up where water could not have carried it? Who in the community kept a practice that could make the river "remember what it owes"?

In this episode, we present a documented history of a small riverbend community, the discovery and official logging of the shoe, and the archival records that revealed an unexpected pattern about bodies recovered at the Wash - could a deliberate, human practice explain what legends claimed the river did?

Person: Donna Patterson
Date: June 4, 2011
Location: eastern bank of Teller River (the Wash)
Case: Marcus Webb drowning, body found June 9, 1988
Period: 23 years between disappearance and shoe discovery

- The shoe was a boy's size four canvas sneaker, red with white rubber toe, with plastic sheaths on the laces and a sole showing no wear.
- Donna Patterson recorded the find with GPS coordinates and four photographs and called the sheriff before touching the shoe on June 4, 2011.
- The river had not reached the willow root fork where the shoe was found for twenty-two days prior to discovery.
- Marcus Webb was seven years old when he drowned in June 1988; his body was found at the Wash on June 9, 1988, wearing one shoe, the other recorded as lost in the water.
- Fenwick County records show 14 bodies recovered at the Wash over seven decades: 11 at low or normal water, 3 at moderate rise, and 0 at flood peak.

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