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The Red Boot at Sutter Reach: 63 Years Later, Crying Returns

The Red Boot at Sutter Reach: 63 Years Later, Crying Returns

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The Red Boot at Sutter Reach: 63 Years Later, Crying Returns

A red rubber left boot packed with river silt was found without footprints on a concrete apron 63 years after three-year-old Alma Cope disappeared from the Carlow River wearing that exact left boot; the right boot was never recovered and Alma’s body was found four days later, two miles downstream. What returned the boot to the lock house at Sutter's Reach, and why did a sequence of unexplained sounds and a mud mark align with rising river levels over nineteen days?

In this episode, we present the documented sequence of events at Sutter's Reach in March 2014 and the archival case file that ties those days to Alma Cope's 1951 disappearance, asking whether the physical records point to a natural explanation or something else. What do a log of crying sounds, a precise mud mark, and a recovered child's left boot tell us when every official record converges on the same nineteen days?

Person: Alma Cope
Date: March 2-14, 2014
Location: Sutter's Reach lock house, Carlow River
Case: 1951 disappearance and 2014 recovery
Author: county historian (forty-page case file)

- The recovered object was a left red rubber child's boot printed with small yellow ducks, packed solid with river silt.
- Alma Cope disappeared 63 years earlier at age three; her body was found four days after she went missing, two miles downstream.
- Gail Davis recorded three separate early-morning crying events on March 2, March 7, and March 11, 2014, each occurring between 03:44 and 03:52.
- A horizontal narrow mud mark was photographed on the upstream lock gate face on March 14, positioned at exactly 4 feet 8 inches above the gate base.
- The river gauge readings were 4.9 feet on March 2, 5.3 feet on March 7, and 5.8 feet on March 11 - the first cry coinciding with the 4.9-foot level.

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