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The Watch by the Transformer: How a Silent Timepiece Cracked Murder

The Watch by the Transformer: How a Silent Timepiece Cracked Murder

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The Watch by the Transformer: How a Silent Timepiece Cracked Murder

A single Seiko watch, found intact beside a rural transformer on June 9, 2011, sat in an evidence bag for nearly three years while a man went missing and his remains lay less than a hundred yards away; how did a routine utility call and a cash-paid brush-clearing job connect the two? What did a twenty-six-year-old paralegal technician see in a database migration that three years of local investigation had missed?

In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the morning the lineman found the watch through the months the county searched for Frank Mitchell, and how separate record systems-missing-persons files and contractor work orders-contained the overlapping clues that finally pointed investigators to the truth. How could a watch with no weathering, a cash-paid work order to "C. Larsen," and a missing, methodical man all fit together?

Person: Frank Mitchell
Date: June 9, 2011
Location: Pritchard Road (near transformer) and Dunmore Street
Status: Missing then later found deceased
Person: C. Larsen (Curtis Larsen)

- Watch found at 7:41 AM on June 9, 2011 by lineman Erin Bell
- Watch description: Seiko with dark brown leather strap, crystal intact, clasp engaged
- Frank Mitchell was 48 years old and missed scheduled work starting the week of May 30, 2011
- Deputy Tom Greer filed the found-property report at 7:53 AM and the watch sat on a shelf for nearly three years
- A cooperative brush-clearing work order two weeks earlier listed contractor "C. Larsen" paid $78 in cash

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