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A Stranger Finds the Message She Left for Her Daughter: The Nora Finch Reunion

A Stranger Finds the Message She Left for Her Daughter: The Nora Finch Reunion

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A Stranger Finds the Message She Left for Her Daughter: The Nora Finch Reunion

A hand towel with a full mailing address, stitched in dark blue thread and worn nearly transparent by three winters, hung from a nail in an empty kitchen on Maple Row - a single needlework that became the only trace of a woman lost in a flood. Nora Finch, 67, vanished after the January 2016 dam breach; the only clear sign she kept moving was a receipt showing a spool of dark blue embroidery thread bought three days later. How did a stitch and a spool become the thread that led her daughter back to her?

In this episode, we follow the documented trail left after the Decker County flood: the shelter sign-in that washed away, the receipt found in a cabinet, and the private researcher Kelly hired to trace her mother's movements. We trace the concrete clues that suggested Nora kept going after the flood and ask where those clues ultimately led.

Date: January 9, 2019
Location: 414 Maple Row, Harlan Flats, Decker County, Missouri
Person: Nora Finch, age 67
Event: Dam breach and flood, January 8, 2016
Item: Receipt from Briggs Family Foods, Brinton, Missouri dated January 11, 2016

- A hand towel with letters stitched in dark blue thread, each letter about 1 centimeter high, was found hanging above the sink.
- Nora Finch had lived at 414 Maple Row for 22 years and was 67 when the dam breached on January 8, 2016.
- Kelly Morgan, Nora’s daughter, was 31 in 2016, living about 300 miles east in Calverton, Indiana, with a four-year-old son.
- Emergency crews swept Maple Row on the night of January 8, 2016; Nora was reported not home but later registered at a Wills County high school gym shelter.
- A receipt dated January 11, 2016 from Briggs Family Foods in Brinton, Missouri listed a loaf of bread, two cans of soup, and one spool of dark blue embroidery thread.

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