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The Door That Didn't Lock: The Timestamp That Broke a Trial

The Door That Didn't Lock: The Timestamp That Broke a Trial

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The Door That Didn't Lock: The Timestamp That Broke a Trial

A wrong camera timestamp off by exactly fifty-eight minutes turned a single photograph into the hinge of a murder trial that deadlocked a jury. Who was standing in the doorway before Melissa Tran left work, and how did a maintenance work order timestamp change everything?

In this episode, you will hear the timeline of Melissa Tran’s disappearance, the discovery of her body in the Aldine River, and the three pieces of evidence that focused suspicion on maintenance technician Kenneth Johnson - but left crucial questions unresolved. How could a completed work order stamped at 4:17 p.m. place Johnson at an apartment he never entered?

Person: Melissa Tran
Person: Kenneth Johnson
Date: June 1, 2011
Location: Aldine River
Cause of death: Manual strangulation

- Melissa was twenty-six and had called her mother every Wednesday at 10:30 p.m, for three years.
- Gas station cameras recorded Melissa at 9:47 p.m. on Birch and Colton the night she disappeared.
- Kenneth Johnson had worked six years for Harmon Property Group with master keys for fourteen buildings.
- A DNA match from a hair in Melissa’s tote was reported by Dr. Carl Weston as one in four hundred billion.
- A work order for apartment 4-C was timestamped 4:17 p.m. on June 1, 2011, but the tenant Howard Bell heard no knock and no one entered.

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