On a foggy February morning in 1896, a farmhand outside Fort Thomas, Kentucky, finds a woman lying in the privet bushes. At first he thinks she’s just another girl, sleeping off a hangover maybe.

Then the sheriff pulls her down the bank, and her dress falls away. Her head is gone.

Detectives start with no name and not even what city she is from. There is a pile of wild theories, including one man who confidently identifies her as his wife until his wife walks in alive.

Then detectives notice her tiny size-three boots. A number stamped inside leads to a factory, then a ledger in Greencastle, Indiana, and finally to a farmhouse where a family is waiting for a daughter who said she was going to Indianapolis.

In this episode, we follow the shoes, the letters, a blood-soaked valise passed around three Cincinnati saloons, and two roommates who can’t stop pointing at each other. It all builds to a moment beside her coffin that will stay with you.

Part two will be out friday, and you will not want to miss how this one ends.

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