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The Watch at 11:47 That Hid a Man's Silent Murder

The Watch at 11:47 That Hid a Man's Silent Murder

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The Watch at 11:47 That Hid a Man's Silent Murder

A Seiko watch was found face-up in a harvested cornfield on September 11, 1983, its hands stopped at 11:47 and its strap buckled at the last hole - but there was no body, no blood, and no footprints. Thirty years later that frozen time matched the exact moment Norman Jones died in his kitchen less than two miles away; how did a child's Christmas gift hold the only clue for three decades?

In this episode, we tell how a found watch, a missing supervisor, and a genealogy database converged to reopen a case that sat in a filing cabinet since the Reagan administration - and ask how routine habits and a sealed evidence envelope hid a murder for thirty years.

Person: Norman Jones
Date: September 11, 1983
Location: harvested cornfield near Cutter Flats, Ohio; Birch Run Road, Harlan County
Status: case went cold; watch shelved for thirty years
Event: watch found with hands stopped at 11:47

- Watch found by 14-year-old Norman Rafferty on September 11, 1983, twenty feet from the road in a harvested cornfield.
- Seiko watch had an uncracked crystal and strap buckled at the last hole, indicating a thick wrist.
- Norman Jones was last seen on Thursday, September 8, 1983, and was 54 years old that summer.
- Norman missed his shift at the corrugated box plant on Friday, September 9, prompting a missing persons report filed the following Monday.
- The watch remained sealed in an evidence envelope in a climate-controlled room for thirty years.

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