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The idea that a single boot print in spilled flour could overturn an official suicide ruling is chilling: a glass plate photographed two days after Philip Rice's body was removed shows a clean boot print pointing toward the open door, and it would take eighteen years for that smudge to be fully explained. Who left that print, why was a forged payoff letter sent on Crossing letterhead, and how did routine trust hide calculated theft and possibly murder?

In this episode, we follow the sequence of events around Philip Rice's death in July 1913 and the documentary evidence that complicated the coroner's quick ruling. You will hear how a traveling photographer's eight-by-ten plate, a forged letter, and missing payments converge to ask whether Rice died alone or at someone else's hands.

Person: Philip Rice
Date: July 8-9, 1913
Location: grain elevator near Pottridge Crossing, Nebraska
Event: photograph plate showing boot print in spilled flour
Person: Edward Underwood

- Philip Rice was 38 years old and farmed a quarter-section with twelve hens.
- Philip received a forged letter on July 5, 1913, claiming his loan was fully paid.
- Kenneth Long found Philip suspended in the elevator just before 6:00 AM on July 9, 1913.
- Coroner Herbert Quill ruled the death apparent self-suspension and released the body the same afternoon.
- Photographer Arthur Deane made an eight-by-ten glass negative two days later that shows a single boot print in the lower left quadrant pointing toward the door.

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