In 1987, a retired mapmaker named Desmond Frey was found dead in his Duluth, Minnesota home — a single gunshot wound, ruled a suicide within 48 hours, case closed before the ink had dried. But when a graduate student in computational geography stumbled onto an anomaly in Frey's final, unfinished survey map nearly thirty years later — a deliberate, encoded distortion that Frey had spent his last weeks embedding into the land itself — investigators began to understand that the map was not just his life's work. It was his confession, and someone else's indictment. This week on Midnight Confessions: the case that proves some men hide their secrets in plain sight, and some maps lead somewhere the living were never meant to follow. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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