『The Empty Boat: Why April Never Walked Off the Riverbank』のカバーアート

The Empty Boat: Why April Never Walked Off the Riverbank

The Empty Boat: Why April Never Walked Off the Riverbank

無料で聴く

ポッドキャストの詳細を見る
The Empty Boat: Why April Never Walked Off the Riverbank

The morning a boat scraped onto Pierson Landing, the motor was tilted up, the seat cushion dry, a green thermos stood upright and still warm, and there was no one aboard - not capsized, not fallen overboard, just gone. What investigators later discovered - a disconnected kill-switch coiled neatly, a running engine that had driven the hull upstream to shore, and a trail-camera image of April at the tiller before dawn - raises one central question: who decided April’s day on the river ended before it began?

In this episode, we follow the timeline from April Mills’s routine Saturday launch to the deputies’ arrival at 8:51 a.m., the dive teams’ two-day search of four miles of river bottom, and the discovery that shifted the case from a missing-persons search to something far more deliberate. How did a woman who kept rigid habits and a sealed thermos end up absent from a boat that had clearly been under power?

Person: April Mills, 55
Date: September 9 (morning)
Location: Pierson Landing, Sable River
Investigator: Larry Tucker, Garvin Parish Sheriff's Office
Witness: Jean Hamilton, land surveyor

- April launched from her driveway at 5:40 a.m. on the morning she disappeared.
- Jean Hamilton called Garvin County dispatch at 8:51 a.m, after finding the empty boat.
- April fished the Sable River alone every Saturday for eleven years and always stopped at Millie's Diner first.
- The kill-switch lanyard was coiled neatly on the rear bench, disconnected and placed deliberately.
- A trail camera image from 6:22 a.m. showed April alone at the tiller with the boat moving upstream.

To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.

© 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved.
This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.
adbl_web_anon_alc_button_suppression_t1
まだレビューはありません