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The Typewriter in Evidence: How a Locker Held a Kidnapper's Secret

The Typewriter in Evidence: How a Locker Held a Kidnapper's Secret

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The Typewriter in Evidence: How a Locker Held a Kidnapper's Secret

A typewriter that had sat logged in a police property room since June 1994 apparently produced a ransom note in August 1997 demanding $50,000 while a nine-year-old was held in a storage unit four miles from her home - so how did a machine that shouldn't have been accessible end up at the center of a kidnapping case? Who used serial number 7714-DE-0093 to type the note, and what did discovery of that machine do to the prosecution's case?

In this episode, we walk through the timeline from the August 6 disappearance to the recovery of the girl on August 11, and follow the paper trail that led investigators to an Olympia Traveller de Luxe recorded in evidence since 1994. How did an evidence-room typewriter factor into the trial of Dennis Clark, and what collapsed once the defense located the machine?

Person: Dennis Clark
Event: Kidnapping of Amy Dewell
Date: August 6-11, 1997
Location: Harlan County, County Road Seven and Raymond Thorpe Trail
Item: Olympia Traveller de Luxe, serial number 7714-DE-0093

- Ransom demand specified $50,000 and was printed in Courier twelve-point on standard 80-pound white copy stock.
- The ransom note was slipped under the Dewell front door before Thomas Dewell woke at 5:15 AM the morning after the disappearance.
- A cooler containing $47,000 in banded cash, a prepaid cash phone, and a folded sheet matching the ransom note was found on August 9 at the half-mile marker of Raymond Thorpe Trail.
- Amy Dewell, age nine and just out of third grade, was found dehydrated but physically unharmed in a storage building four miles from her home on August 11.
- Dennis Clark had unsupervised access to the sheriff's property room as an evidence-processing contractor from March 1995 through October 1996, while the typewriter had been logged in since June 1994.

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