Picture by Lura Helmes

Welcome to another installment of Friday Fictioneers brought to you by Madison Woods.   For links to other Fictioneer stories please click here.

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50 years later, the missing piece of evidence was found.  Lodged in the trunk of a tree, it had remained undisturbed for all that time.  And during that time, an innocent man was put to death, a guilty man was never apprehended, and a community was changed forever.