{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmidnight-confessions.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fthe-cartographer-of-guilt-aOd5GsBm","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"The Cartographer of Guilt","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/96a10b54-3566-4ae1-87fd-fd8bff7bd182/f5609db9-2ffb-4026-b284-6c966ea038e3/midnight-20confessions.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":"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."}