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The Shoe Standing Upright: What Harwick Buried for 34 Years

The Shoe Standing Upright: What Harwick Buried for 34 Years

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The Shoe Standing Upright: What Harwick Buried for 34 Years

A single red size-four sneaker, double-knotted and standing upright, was found on a demolition site floor on September 4, 2019 - 34 years after eight-year-old Richard Bennett vanished on September 11, 1985. How could a shoe, soil in its tread, and a supervisor's handwritten logbook finally point to what had been buried beneath that floor for decades?

In this episode, we lay out the timeline and the overlooked details that reopened the Bennett case, from the original assumptions that pushed the search outward to the people who were actually in Harwick that morning; what did a routine review and one detective's lost photograph change about the story?

Person: Richard Bennett
Date: Disappearance on September 11, 1985
Location: Aldren Textile plant (site), Harwick, Harrison County
Investigator: Amanda Barnes (case review, January 2018)
Witness/Person of Interest: Curtis Foster (Aldren maintenance technician, employed spring 1984-March 1986)

- A child's red sneaker, size four with double-knotted laces, was found upright on the Aldren Textile plant floor on September 4, 2019.
- Richard Bennett was eight years old when he disappeared on September 11, 1985, and his backpack was missing from home that day.
- Forty to sixty workers were present at the Aldren plant on September 11, 1985; none were interviewed during the original investigation.
- Detective Lou Harding kept the file open for four years after the active search was suspended and died in 2003 with the case unresolved.
- Curtis Foster worked at Aldren from spring 1984 to March 1986 and was incarcerated in 2018 at Whitmore Correctional in Cambria County, Indiana.

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