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  • You see the trunk tagged with George's name on the six-fourteen-do you open it?

    You see the trunk tagged with George's name on the six-fourteen-do you open it?
    2026/10/30
    A tagged trunk bearing George Tate's name arrives on the 6:14 freight-no passenger, no claim, and a station worker must decide whether to open it.

    You see the trunk tagged with George's name on the six-fourteen-do you open it?

    In this episode, we follow the disappearance of George Tate through the traces he left: a checked waybill, a broken deadbolt, a missed Friday game, and a freight system that may have carried him away. What choices and blind spots in everyday systems could make a person vanish?

    Person: George Tate
    Date: early December (arrival on December 8)
    Location: Reyes Junction freight depot; Senda Court apartment 4-14
    Status: Missing; trunk CTR-114 arrived on 6:14 AM train
    Event: trunk tagged with George's name; unclaimed freight opened by station worker

    - George worked in freight logistics for eleven years and understood waybills and cargo holds instinctively.
    - He kept a rigid routine: lived alone in apartment 4-14, paid rent on time, and met Pat every Friday for a cooperative board game for fourteen months.
    - His Friday text went unanswered; Pat found George's apartment with a broken deadbolt request and a cold kitchen at 24°F.
    - Investigators found signs of a struggle, blood sealed under linoleum, one work boot missing, and a landlord fob entry the night before.
    - Trunk CTR-114, ticketed and checked under a legitimate waybill with George's name, arrived on the 6:14 AM train to Reyes Junction with no claimant.

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    15 分
  • You open the parcel, smell coffee, and decide whether to read O'Brien's tow log

    You open the parcel, smell coffee, and decide whether to read O'Brien's tow log
    2026/10/29
    A daughter receives her slain father’s missing thermos in the mail and must decide whether to read a tow log that names a local recovery driver.

    You open the parcel, smell coffee, and decide whether to read O'Brien's tow log

    In this episode, we follow the morning routine that ended on County Road Seven and the package that reopened unanswered questions three years later. We trace the trail from a missing thermos to a tow company log and ask what one object can compel a daughter to confront the past.

    Person: Keith Morris
    Person: Nicole Morris
    Person: Detective Carol Morris
    Date: November 2
    Location: County Road Seven, culvert pull-off

    - Keith walked the same two-mile loop each morning for twenty-two years and carried a thermos in his left hand.
    - Neighbor Dennis Farwell last saw Keith at the culvert the morning he disappeared and noted the thermos was raised.
    - Investigators documented the thermos as "not lost, taken" in the scene report after Keith's body was found.
    - O'Brien filed a tow-company entry at 7:08 a.m. on November 2 for a vehicle assist at the CR-seven culvert pull-off in his own handwriting.
    - When asked, O'Brien told investigators he was six miles north at 7:05 a.m. clearing a disabled camper on Route 9, a timeline that conflicts with his tow log.

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    16 分
  • You find Christine's tied boot at Marker Nine - do you follow the fresh prints?

    You find Christine's tied boot at Marker Nine - do you follow the fresh prints?
    2026/10/28
    A trail crew finds Christine's tied boot at Marker Nine - a missing woman's trail seems to show she's alive, but are the prints staged?

    You find Christine's tied boot at Marker Nine - do you follow the fresh prints?

    In this episode, we follow the timeline and physical clues around Christine Lawson's disappearance and the baffling prints at Marker Nine. The episode lays out who was where, what was found, and asks what those footprints really mean for the investigation.

    Person: Christine Lawson, 23
    Person: Duane Rogers, 41
    Person: Detective Brian York, 47
    Date: October 6-14
    Location: Ridgeline Spur trail, Marker Nine, Creel's Fork, Washington

    - Christine worked inventory for Harlan County Forestry, called her mother every Wednesday for four years, and stopped at the Creel's Fork supermarket at 4:48 PM on October 6.
    - Duane Rogers texted Christine at 3:47 PM offering maps, clocked out at 4:10 PM, and has an unexplained 5 hour 45 minute gap before returning at 9:55 PM.
    - Christine's Civic, with groceries inside and a 4:48 receipt, was left in the supermarket parking lot and found on October 9 with keys on the seat.
    - The trail crew graded Ridgeline Spur on October 8; their log dates the fresh footprints in that newly smoothed mud to the same day.
    - One of Christine's work boots, lace still tied, was found near Marker Nine while her body was discovered under logging slash 40 yards off the trail on October 14.

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    14 分
  • You see Peggy's bowling trophy stuck in the field-do you follow the clay trail?

    You see Peggy's bowling trophy stuck in the field-do you follow the clay trail?
    2026/10/27
    A severed hand and Peggy's bowling trophy are planted in a Nebraska cornfield - a staged clue that dares someone to follow the clay trail.

    You see Peggy's bowling trophy stuck in the field-do you follow the clay trail?

    In this episode, we lay out the discovery that set Harlan County on edge: a hand buried in a harvested field and a glass trophy pressed like a marker into the dirt. We trace Peggy Reed’s routine, who had a public bowling schedule, the itinerant harvest workers in town, and the puzzling forensic detail that tied the trophy to a distant drainage culvert; what did that staging mean, and who planned it?

    Person: Peggy Reed
    Date: September 9, 2014 (last seen), September 14, 2014 (hand found), September 18, 2014 (body found)
    Location: Harlan County, Nebraska; cornfield two hundred yards from Sprague Creek; drainage culvert beneath County Road Seven
    Item: Glass bowling trophy engraved "Lucky Strikes" (trophies found pressed into earth)
    Person: Tammy Brooks (found the hand), John Turner (investigator), Troy York (itinerant worker)

    - Tammy Brooks checked fishing traps at 6:40 a.m. along Sprague Creek and found a severed human hand and a glass bowling trophy pressed vertically into bare dirt.
    - Peggy Reed bowled Tuesdays at Enders Lanes; her schedule was posted on Millbrook Elementary’s parent bulletin board and she was recorded leaving the alley at 9:14 p.m.
    - The trophy was identified as Peggy’s and had clay in its base that laboratory analysis matched to the drainage culvert beneath County Road Seven, not the cornfield.
    - Troy York, an itinerant harvest worker renting nearby, had asked his landlord what time “the bowling people” left about a week before Peggy disappeared; he had no known connection to her.
    - Investigators treated the cornfield discovery as a staged message: the hand and trophy were placed intentionally to be found, while Peggy’s body was later recovered 1.1 miles west in the drainage culvert.

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    18 分
  • You hear a battery-powered radio screaming outside - would you check?

    You hear a battery-powered radio screaming outside - would you check?
    2026/10/26
    A battery radio screams outside a woman’s door; a missing work order and a withdrawn $140 force a choice about trust?

    You hear a battery-powered radio screaming outside - would you check?

    In this episode, we walk through the morning a weather radio blared in the desert and a routine visit became the pivot for an investigation. It follows the people, documents, and small choices that hinted at something amiss - and asks how well you really know the person you let into your home.

    Person: Sarah Larsen
    Age: 63
    Location: Catura County, Nevada
    Event: Weather radio found broadcasting outside Sarah’s home
    Date: Body found August 9; work order July 31; cash withdrawal August 4

    - A battery-powered NOAA weather radio was found forty feet from Sarah’s back door, broadcasting at full volume.
    - Sarah had kept that same radio in a kitchen drawer for over two years with no batteries because it had once startled her awake.
    - On July 31, Robert Simmons filed a professional work order for a swamp cooler repair at the Larsen property.
    - The swamp cooler’s internal hour meter showed zero hours of operation after July 28, contradicting the claimed service.
    - Sarah, who rarely missed weekly visits with her sister, did not appear on Wednesday August 6, and $140 was withdrawn from her account on August 4 with no receipt.

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    17 分
  • You Find Her Purple Shoe on the Foreman's Desk - What Do You Do?

    You Find Her Purple Shoe on the Foreman's Desk - What Do You Do?
    2026/10/25
    A purple running shoe on a locked foreman’s desk-what would you do when the only clue to a disappearance is an impossible object?

    You Find Her Purple Shoe on the Foreman's Desk - What Do You Do?

    In this episode, we follow the morning Alice Renner went for her run and never sent the usual text home. The story traces where she was seen, where her shoe was found, and the odd chain of custody around a single padlocked shed-what choice did each person make along the way?

    Person: Alice Renner
    Date: July 9
    Location: Eastern dock foreman’s operations shed
    Event: Single purple running shoe found on foreman’s desk
    Topic: Missing person with locked-building evidence

    - Alice ran the same 45-minute loop every morning to Pier Nine, always texting “Made it” at the buoy at 6:07.
    - The foreman unlocked the padlocked operations shed at 7:22 and found an intact padlock and one purple shoe on his desk.
    - Only authorized personnel held keys; the padlock showed no forced entry and opened normally on the foreman’s key.
    - Ray Wescott held the only documented duplicate key and had a recent documented dispute with Alice that went to HR.
    - Wescott’s badge shows he entered the eastern dock at 7:04, after Alice was seen at the buoy and before the shoe was discovered.

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    14 分
  • The Bench, The Coat, The Key: Who Knew Gregory Perry?

    The Bench, The Coat, The Key: Who Knew Gregory Perry?
    2026/10/24
    A winter coat buttoned to the collar sits on a June park bench; a missing volunteer, a house entered with a secret key - what would you do?

    The Bench, The Coat, The Key: Who Knew Gregory Perry?

    In this episode, we follow the timeline and small decisions that turned an ordinary Tuesday night into a mystery: a man who made himself legible, a coat found on a river bench, and signs someone had quietly used a key to his home. How did routine and access collide, and what choices mattered along the way?

    Person: Gregory Perry
    Date: June 3-4 (night of disappearance; coat found June 4)
    Location: River path bench; Gregory's home (coat removed from inside)
    Event: Coat found buttoned to the collar on an unseasonably warm June night
    Detail: Contractor records include a garage keypad battery replacement and three names linked to prior work

    - Gregory Perry kept rigid routines: weekly Tuesday shifts at a food pantry, signing out at 9:07 p.m., and evening rituals neighbors could set their watches by.
    - A heavy navy winter coat, buttoned at the throat, was found on a river bench in early June when temperatures stayed in the sixties.
    - The coat matched one kept on a hook just inside Gregory’s locked front door, indicating someone had entered his house and taken it.
    - Contractor invoices show a name listed for “garage keypad battery replacement,” implying the worker had used the code rather than installed new access.
    - Investigators traced three contractor names connected by time and place, and one man had a timestamped hardware store receipt for the afternoon of June 3.

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    16 分
  • Forty Feet of Boot Prints That Led Nowhere

    Forty Feet of Boot Prints That Led Nowhere
    2026/10/23
    A trail of size eleven boot prints leads from Diane Thorpe’s body into the woods - then stops. What happened?

    Forty Feet of Boot Prints That Led Nowhere

    In this episode, we follow the physical evidence left at a murder scene and the records that surround it to understand how scene, schedule, and systems intersect. What do those forty feet of boot prints and a single discrepancy report really point toward?

    Person: Diane Thorpe
    Person: Keith Vickers
    Person: Tom Akers
    Date: October 8 (session saved at 4:52 PM; logged out 5:03 PM)
    Location: trailhead and maintenance bay

    - Forensic teams recorded size eleven boot impressions starting at Diane’s body and continuing straight into the treeline for forty feet with no return prints.
    - The soil held clear details - heel depth, toe angle, and weight distribution - indicating a person moving quickly and not dragging or stumbling.
    - Diane had been compiling a three-week discrepancy report naming Keith Vickers for repeated small billing irregularities and saved a final version the afternoon before she was killed.
    - Keith Vickers badged out of the administrative building at 8:47 PM, thirteen minutes before the medical examiner’s death window began around 9:00 PM.
    - Vickers’s keycard logged entry to the maintenance bay the evening before, where a size eleven shoe print with hydraulic-fluid transfer matched a hydraulic-fluid trace found in the forest forty feet in from the boot trail.

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    14 分