The Shoebox on Sycamore Creek: Obits for the Living
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The Shoebox on Sycamore Creek: Obits for the Living
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Fear and fascination collide: a sealed shoebox found above Sycamore Creek's flood line held eighteen obituaries for people who, by every state record, were still alive - and a five-word note pointing investigators to one name. Who would create fake deaths with such care, and why would a small-town obituary writer risk everything to announce lives that continued on?
In this episode, we tell the story of how a newcomer to Millhaven became the author of precise, intimate obituaries and why seventeen years of identity and records could not explain her past. Follow the trail from a banked shoebox to a newspaper office, and ask the question that a judge could not answer: why did she do it?
Person: Gloria Zimmerman
Location: Millhaven, Greer County, Mississippi
Date: June 11, 2019
Case: Eighteen false obituaries found in a shoebox
Amount: $4,027 collected via surcharge
- Shoebox was sealed with two layers of tape and set just above the flood line on the bank of Sycamore Creek.
- Inside were eighteen newspaper clippings, each an obituary from the Greer County Courier for people legally recorded as alive.
- A note tucked between the clippings read five words: "These people are alive. Ask Gloria."
- Gloria Zimmerman arrived in Millhaven in 2008 at age fifty-one and worked four days a week writing obituaries for eleven years.
- She collected a "sourcing and verification surcharge" eighteen times, totaling approximately $4,027, including cases where living people received memorial fund letters after their obituaries ran.
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