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  • The unclaimed trunk revealed a life that stopped mid-plan

    The unclaimed trunk revealed a life that stopped mid-plan
    2026/10/30
    A woman ships her travel trunk ahead, then disappears; it sits unclaimed at a freight yard - what happened to her?

    The unclaimed trunk revealed a life that stopped mid-plan

    This episode explores the puzzling case of Beverly Taylor, a dedicated freight yard employee who vanished shortly after shipping a travel trunk for an upcoming trip. It delves into the details of her life, her routine, and the circumstances surrounding her disappearance, leaving investigators with more questions than answers.

    Person: Beverly Taylor
    Date: December 10, 2019
    Location: Harlow Junction freight yard, New Mexico
    Status: Unclaimed trunk, missing person
    Cause: Manual strangulation

    - Beverly Taylor, a 48-year-old employee, worked at the Harlow Junction freight yard for eleven years.
    - On December 3, Beverly packed a travel trunk with clothes, gifts, and a crossword puzzle book, shipping it to her sister in Tucson using her employee benefit.
    - Alan Marshall, a cargo coordinator, approved Beverly's leave request for December 10-14, the day after she shipped her trunk.
    - Beverly worked her full shift on December 9, leaving the yard around 6 PM, the same time as Alan Marshall.
    - Her body was found four days later, approximately four-tenths of a mile from the Harlow Junction yard, with the medical examiner establishing her death between 7 and 9 PM on December 9.

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    18 分
  • The Post‑it PIN that Started Her Three‑Week Fall

    The Post‑it PIN that Started Her Three‑Week Fall
    2026/10/30
    A woman’s PIN on a Post‑it, a lone suitcase on County Road Nine - how do you fall from that high when someone has been watching for three weeks?

    The Post‑it PIN that Started Her Three‑Week Fall

    In this episode, we follow the moments and mundane shortcuts that set a plan in motion: a Post‑it note at a depot, a freight log entry, a suitcase on a roadside. How did routine access and everyday habits become the hinge of a much larger plot?

    Person: Jennifer Quinn
    Date: Thursday, August 14
    Location: County Road Nine; Maret Junction depot
    Event: Freight entry under Jennifer Quinn's PIN at 7:58 PM
    Person: Eric Carlson

    - A freight counter routine left Jennifer’s PIN written on a Post‑it visible from the customer side.
    - Eric Carlson visited the Maret Junction intake window three weeks before August 14 and viewed the note.
    - Over three weeks Carlson observed Jennifer’s routes, timing, and habit of sometimes carrying luggage.
    - On the evening of August 14 a suitcase stood upright on the gravel shoulder with a freight tag attached.
    - At 7:58 PM a freight system entry recorded a package logged under Jennifer Quinn’s credentials.

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    16 分
  • The re-grouted crawl-space panel that cost Dennis Farrow his freedom

    The re-grouted crawl-space panel that cost Dennis Farrow his freedom
    2026/10/30
    A locked boathouse, a dead woman, and a re-grouted crawl-space panel that may be the only route in - what did it cost him?

    The re-grouted crawl-space panel that cost Dennis Farrow his freedom

    In this episode, we lay out the facts around Cynthia Rafferty’s death and the physical puzzle that stopped investigators cold. Track the timeline, the hidden passage, and the decision that put Dennis Farrow at the center of the case - but what did his proximity cost him?

    Person: Cynthia Rafferty
    Date: September 6, 2022
    Location: Cassell Road, Harlan Falls
    Person: Melvin White
    Person: Dennis Farrow

    - Cynthia’s fixed fourteen‑month Tuesday routine and the single missed morning that signaled something was wrong.
    - The boathouse padlock showed no forced entry, the porthole was latched from inside, and a pair of reading glasses lay balanced on the canoe seat.
    - A non-standard crawl-space passage from the cottage utility room to the boathouse, built in the 1960s, was undocumented in rental and county records.
    - Handyman Melvin White re-grouted the crawl-space access panel on June 4, 2022, noted the “boathouse-side terminus,” and retained a key listed for a follow-up.
    - Dennis Farrow, owner of the adjacent property, had a public fence dispute with Cynthia three weeks earlier and became the named focus of the investigation eleven days after the body was found.

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    16 分
  • The skidder's engine started at 11:58 - did anyone reach him in time?

    The skidder's engine started at 11:58 - did anyone reach him in time?
    2026/10/30
    A timber faller lies face-down in the snow, boot prints lead in but not out - a late-night call and an engine start complicate the scene. Who did it?

    The skidder's engine started at 11:58 - did anyone reach him in time?

    This episode explores the mysterious discovery of Kenneth Aldridge, a timber faller found dead in the snow. We delve into the conflicting evidence surrounding his final hours and the questions it raises about what truly happened in the remote logging roads of northern Washington.

    Person: Kenneth Aldridge
    Location: Northern Washington
    Company: Dellhart Logging Company
    Date: Wednesday night / Saturday morning
    Object: Flask of whiskey

    - Kenneth Aldridge, a 41-year-old timber faller, was found face-down in the snow with only one set of boot prints leading to him.
    - His wife, Marta, last spoke to him at approximately 11:30 PM, when he told her he would be home in "ten more minutes" after retrieving a flask.
    - Sherry Duncan discovered Kenneth's body at 9:20 AM on a Saturday morning while photographing birds.
    - Kenneth's time card showed he clocked out at 11:02 PM, but the company skidder's GPS logged an engine start at 11:58 PM.
    - The flask Kenneth mentioned retrieving was found sealed in his pocket, with whiskey still inside, suggesting he never opened it.

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    15 分
  • The scribbled note "PM feed - six hundred hours" undid his life

    The scribbled note "PM feed - six hundred hours" undid his life
    2026/10/29
    A schoolteacher’s diary arrives a year after her murder, and a tech log links routine to crime-how was a life so carefully scheduled breached?

    The scribbled note "PM feed - six hundred hours" undid his life

    In this episode, we follow the discovery of Paula Pitman’s datebook and the parallel logbooks that tie a service technician to her daily routines. We trace the entries, the school sign-in, and the missing pages that turned mundane schedules into central clues - how did a man with a clipboard map her life?

    Person: Paula Pitman
    Person: Norman White
    Location: Millbrook Middle School; Elmhurst Road (storage unit)
    Event: Datebook found in mailbox 14 months after Paula's murder
    Entry: "PM feed - six hundred hours" written in Norman White's logbook

    - Paula’s datebook was mailed to her mother Joyce from Joliet 14 months after Paula’s death.
    - Norman White signed the Millbrook visitor register on July 9 with no work order from Crestline.
    - White kept a shoebox in a storage unit where investigators later found his own annotated datebook covering the same weeks as Paula’s.
    - Paula’s daily routine included Obie’s insulin injections at exactly 6:00 PM, a schedule she recorded in her calendar.
    - On the night Paula was found, Obie was outside at 9:00 PM and Paula’s datebook was missing from the house.

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    18 分
  • The Index Card That Collapsed a Perfect Life

    The Index Card That Collapsed a Perfect Life
    2026/10/29
    A dental hygienist is found dead, but her pet rabbit is still being fed with precise care. The mystery of the rabbit's feeder unravels a perfect life.

    The Index Card That Collapsed a Perfect Life

    This episode explores the puzzling circumstances surrounding the death of Wendy Parker, focusing on the unusual detail of her pet rabbit's continued care after her passing. It delves into the questions raised by this precise feeding schedule and how it became central to understanding what happened.

    Person: Wendy Parker
    Age: 32
    Location: Sattler's Creek, Harmon County
    Date of Death: November 11th
    Animal: Holland Lop rabbit, Biscuit

    - Wendy Parker, a dental hygienist, lived alone in a rental home and maintained a strict schedule for feeding her rabbit.
    - Her handwritten index card detailed a precise feeding protocol: 28 grams of pellets twice daily and a GI supplement with the morning feed.
    - Six weeks before her death, Wendy disputed an invoice from handyman Keith Thorpe, who had serviced her water heater.
    - Thorpe had access to Wendy's property during the service and saw the rabbit hutch in the backyard.
    - Wendy's body was discovered three days after her death, but her rabbit had been fed exactly according to her instructions during that time.

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    16 分
  • The empty poker chair that ended eleven years of Thursdays

    The empty poker chair that ended eleven years of Thursdays
    2026/10/29
    A packed suitcase labeled David Whitaker is found on a train he never boarded - what did it cost him?

    The empty poker chair that ended eleven years of Thursdays

    In this episode, we follow the early hours of a missing persons case in Caldera Junction after a baggage worker finds a suitcase with David Whitaker’s tag on it. The episode traces the concrete clues investigators pull together - fuel card fills, train manifests, familiar routines - and asks what those details might mean.

    Person: David Whitaker
    Location: Caldera Junction
    Date: August 7 (suitcase found at 6:45 AM)
    Occupation: Freight depot worker (30 years)
    Event: Packed suitcase on 4:52 train with handwritten tag

    - David attended the same Thursday night poker game for eleven straight years and missed the Thursday before he disappeared.
    - Sandra Whitaker reported him missing after finding his truck gone and his coffee cup still in the rack.
    - A sixteen-year-old baggage worker, Kevin Callahan, discovered the suitcase on the depot cart at 6:45 AM.
    - The suitcase traveled on the 4:52 train from the north junction but there’s no record of David boarding or buying a ticket.
    - David’s company fuel card was used at the same Highway Fourteen pump twice: 11:48 PM on August 6 and 2:17 AM on August 7.

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    21 分
  • The chimney smoke that kept burning-did they make it in time?

    The chimney smoke that kept burning-did they make it in time?
    2026/10/29
    A teenage paperboy finds a gloved hand in a frozen field - a smoking chimney at an empty farmhouse: did they make it in time?

    The chimney smoke that kept burning-did they make it in time?

    In this episode, we follow the sequence of discoveries that turned a routine paper route into a criminal investigation. The episode covers the morning Jennifer McCarthy stopped at County Road Seven, the timeline around Lloyd Larsen’s disappearance, and the odd traces that picked apart alibis - but did anyone arrive soon enough?

    Person: Jennifer McCarthy
    Date: January 9 (six-fourteen a.m.)
    Location: County Road Seven, Hendrick County, Indiana
    Person: Lloyd Larsen
    Person: Vernon Collins

    - Jennifer McCarthy, 16, stopped her bike on a frozen field to find a brown Farm Co-op glove rising upright from four inches of frozen earth.
    - Lloyd Larsen, 54, left bowling league on January 3 and was never seen again; his bowling bag with muddy shoes was inside his farmhouse doorway.
    - A text from Vernon Collins to Lloyd at 9:47 p.m. on January 3 shows Lloyd read it and evidence indicates he went to Collins’s place afterward.
    - A propane delivery driver logged chimney smoke at Lloyd’s house on the morning of January 4 and left a door tag after receiving no answer.
    - A Farm Co-op receipt dated December 28 shows Vernon Collins bought a box of size-large brown work gloves later found in the investigation.

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    13 分