Forty Thousand Dollars in Marked Bills Found in a Safe Deposit Box

the corner of the local history room hissing like a kettle. I sat in front of the gray microfilm reader, my hands cold as I turned the black plastic wheel to advance the film.

The green light of the screen illuminated the pages of the Shelbyville Sentinel-News from October of 1984.

I scrolled past advertisements for fifteen-cent hamburgers and ten-color continue reading …