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The Wallet on the Milepost: How a Stranger Found Her Route

The Wallet on the Milepost: How a Stranger Found Her Route

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The Wallet on the Milepost: How a Stranger Found Her Route

A clean, bone-dry wallet sat on a concrete anchor block after eleven hours of rain, holding a Missouri license for Edward Colby and forty-three dollars - yet the address was a vacant lot and the phone disconnected. How did an item tied to a man with no fixed address and a fractured past end up untouched on a roadside where a predictable truck route would find it?

In this episode, we tell the sequence of events that connects a lineman who discovered the wallet, a veteran trucker who drove a public, repeatable freight route, and a man whose life had collapsed into following that route - and we ask what parts of his actions can be explained and what remains inexplicable.

Person: Edward Colby
Person: Lisa Bowers
Date: August 14, 2019
Location: Highway 63 pull-off, Howell County, Missouri
Item found: wallet with $43, Visa debit card, Missouri driver's license

- The wallet was photographed in place by Kimberly Mueller at 7:22 AM on August 14, 2019.
- The rain had stopped just before dawn after eleven straight hours; every puddle within twenty feet still held standing water.
- Lisa Bowers had driven the same Springfield-Texarkana-Tulsa triangle freight route for eleven years in a 2014 Kenworth T680 with roughly 260,000 miles.
- Edward Colby had worked six weeks at a Springfield cold-storage facility about eleven years earlier and then left without notice.
- The Amarillo, Texas address on Colby’s license corresponded to a lot where the house had been demolished eighteen months earlier.

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