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  • The freight manifest checked in at 9:47 - did the gas call arrive in time?

    The freight manifest checked in at 9:47 - did the gas call arrive in time?
    Aug 26 2026
    A blue Samsonite checked onto a southbound freight manifest; a woman named on the tag lay dead in her basement - did the gas call arrive in time?

    The freight manifest checked in at 9:47 - did the gas call arrive in time?

    In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events surrounding Dawn Foster’s disappearance and the strange itinerary of her suitcase, following the timeline from the freight counter to the discovery in her home. What happened in the hours between a midnight freight transaction and a gas-pressure call that led a utility worker to her basement?

    Person: Dawn Foster
    Location: 14 Arroyo Street, Creston Falls
    Date: December 9-11, 2023
    Event: Blue Samsonite checked southbound at 9:47 p.m.
    Person: Scott Walker (NM Gas Company) found body at 7:14 a.m.

    - A blue Samsonite with a luggage tag in Dawn Foster’s handwriting was checked at the Creston Falls freight counter at 9:47 p.m. on December 9, paid for in cash by a calm, heavyset man who presented no ID.
    - Dawn, a 62-year-old USPS supervisor retiring in 62 days, missed her Tuesday bridge call the next morning - an uncharacteristic absence that prompted her friend Patrice to call police.
    - Freight clerk Dennis Aguirre initialed the handwritten manifest without ID, a protocol gap later noted in the investigation.
    - NM Gas Company technician Scott Walker was dispatched for a pressure irregularity at 14 Arroyo Street and found Dawn in the basement at 7:14 a.m. on December 11, estimated dead about 36 hours.
    - Detective Clifford Hayes pulled the manifest and confronted a staged departure: the suitcase was gone south while Dawn’s home showed no sign she had left.

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    16 min
  • The insulin pen that ran out the night they raced to her door

    The insulin pen that ran out the night they raced to her door
    Aug 25 2026
    A chipped insulin pen arrives three years after Susan Zimmerman vanished - did the missing pen point to who was near her door?

    The insulin pen that ran out the night they raced to her door

    In this episode, we follow the timeline of Susan Zimmerman’s last days, the forensic gaps around an absent insulin pen, and the phone records that place a furnace technician near her duplex on the night she disappeared. What do the tower ping and the returned pen tell investigators about who was by her door that night?

    Person: Susan Zimmerman
    Age: 26
    Location: Caldwell Street, Harwick Falls, Indiana
    Date: November 6-9 (disappearance and discovery)
    Person: Jeffrey Wilson

    - Susan, a precise paralegal who never missed Milo’s twice-daily insulin, failed to respond to a text from her boyfriend on November 6.
    - A neighbor found Milo in distress at 6:30 PM on November 7, twelve hours past his scheduled injection.
    - Forensic notes recorded Susan’s insulin pen as missing from her apartment and the scene after her body was found in Millbrook Creek.
    - HVAC technician Jeffrey Wilson told police his last contact was October 28, but his phone pinged a tower near Susan’s duplex at 11:17 PM on November 6.
    - A Post-it on Susan’s monitor - “Milo six thirty” - and Paul Kettner’s security badge log establish precise movements that investigators used to build the timeline.

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    16 min
  • The keycard that woke the yard at 3:11 - did they arrive in time?

    The keycard that woke the yard at 3:11 - did they arrive in time?
    Aug 24 2026
    A keycard swipe at 3:11 a.m. at a frozen logging yard and a dead dispatcher inside a locked barn - did they arrive in time?

    The keycard that woke the yard at 3:11 - did they arrive in time?

    In this episode, we follow the morning a routine utility check exposed a locked-room death at Harlan Creek and the frozen footprint that made no sense. The episode traces who had access that night, what Wade Tillman had been quietly uncovering, and the narrow window of events that shaped the investigation - did anyone get there before frost sealed the scene?

    Person: Wade Tillman
    Person: Wayne Webb
    Person: Dennis Farr
    Location: Harlan Creek, Duvall County, Oregon
    Date: October 8-9 (key times 2:10 a.m., 3:11 a.m., 8:47 a.m.)

    - Frost formed overnight and captured every impression around the main barn, showing footprints that only led away from the alcove.
    - Tillman had been reviewing fuel invoices and found 17 charges over 26 months totaling $61,400 that lacked corresponding intake logs.
    - At 2:10 a.m. Tillman called his daughter saying he’d found a mismatched number; at 3:11 a.m. Wayne Webb’s keycard accessed the property.
    - Webb held authorized 24/7 keycard access as a fuel contractor; Dennis Farr reviewed Webb’s invoices before they entered the system.
    - The keycard log sat unexamined in a manila folder at the sheriff’s office for six days while Detective Sergeant Holly Riley built a timeline and focused her early investigation on Farr.

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    14 min
  • Bag Buried in a Bare Field: The Murder of Gary Dixon

    Bag Buried in a Bare Field: The Murder of Gary Dixon
    Aug 23 2026
    A bowling bag with the initials G.D. is dug up in a harvested soybean field - three miles from where the owner lies dead; did anyone move him in time?

    Bag Buried in a Bare Field: The Murder of Gary Dixon

    In this episode, we follow the discovery that starts a homicide inquiry: a bowling bag surfaced in a pale, harvested soybean field and a man was found face-down in a drainage ditch three miles away. We trace the timeline of the last confirmed sighting, the burial in exposed ground after combines ran, and the financial entry that appears the morning after his disappearance - what does it all point to?

    Person: Gary Dixon
    Date: September 6-9 (last seen Sept 6; bag found Sept 9)
    Location: soybean field adjacent to Route Nine; body found in drainage ditch off Route Nine
    Employer: Hoffman Family Grain, LLC
    Detective: Jason Lewis

    - April Bailey found the disturbed rectangle of soil and unearthed the bowling bag with initials G.D., a ball and rental shoes inside.
    - Desk clerk at Millford Lanes saw Gary leave at 9:40 PM on Sept 6 with the bag over his shoulder after bowling a 214.
    - Harvest logs show the adjacent soybean field was fully harvested by 7 AM on Sept 7, meaning the bag was buried after combines cleared the field.
    - Medical examiner Nate Okafor ruled the cause of death a homicide; the body was discovered three miles south in a drainage ditch later the same day.
    - A $340 “equipment deposit refund” cleared Gary’s employer’s farm account on the morning of Sept 7, despite no record of any deposit in his hire paperwork.

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    14 min
  • The GPS kept blinking and cost them the extra eleven days to find him

    The GPS kept blinking and cost them the extra eleven days to find him
    Aug 22 2026
    A GPS blinked on a creosote shrub in the Nevada desert-eleven days after a fuel-truck driver vanished; did they make it in time?

    The GPS kept blinking and cost them the extra eleven days to find him

    In this episode, we follow the steps investigators and family took from the last routine Thursday at the Pinon Diner to the discovery of a blinking GPS in a neglected stretch of high desert. We trace the paperwork, CCTV, and data that rerouted the case and ask what the persistent signal means for the search.

    Person: Randy Olson
    Date: August 3-16
    Location: Harwick County, Nevada; US-95 corridor; scrubland east of US-95
    Status: Missing; Peterbilt recovered stripped at Harwick Yards
    Person: Leanne Olson

    - Randy left a Thursday noon ritual at Booth Four and signed out a Peterbilt at ~9:40 PM on August 4, but CCTV shows a different person at the pump at 9:38 PM.
    - Donna Marsh’s departure log timestamps matched CCTV frames, eliminating an inside-records tampering theory.
    - The Peterbilt was found on August 11 at Harwick Yards, stripped and without keys, fourteen miles from the terminal.
    - A Garmin GPS device was found zip-tied to a creosote shrub, still transmitting coordinates eleven days after Randy vanished though its battery was dead.
    - The GPS had been pinging continuously from the same fixed point roughly 200 yards off a maintenance road, raising the question of who kept it alive.

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    14 min
  • The misaligned hasp that stalled the return - did they make it?

    The misaligned hasp that stalled the return - did they make it?
    Aug 21 2026
    A misaligned hasp on a padlocked lighthouse annex, a Garmin watch that logged a finished run, and a missing woman - did they make it in time?

    The misaligned hasp that stalled the return - did they make it?

    In this episode, we follow the discovery that set off a county investigation: a Garmin Forerunner found on a shelf inside a padlocked annex and the questions it raised about a missing marine technician. How did her watch end up in a building she never had access to, and who had the means to put it there?

    Person: Wendy Norris
    Date: Found July 14
    Location: Breakwater Lighthouse annex
    Person: Edward Tate
    Person: Dean Callahan

    - A Garmin Forerunner 255 sat on a bare wooden shelf inside a padlocked annex that had been locked since 2019.
    - Edward Tate, a 67-year-old commercial fisherman with a county key for an adjacent shed, noticed the padlock hasp was slightly misaligned and pushed the door open.
    - The watch showed a completed 3.1-mile run synced at 6:47 AM on July 9 - the same route Wendy Norris ran every morning for eleven years.
    - Wendy Norris, a 44-year-old marine biology technician, was missing for five days when the watch was found; she had received an invitation from Dean Callahan to go out on the water two days before her run.
    - Harbor logs show Callahan’s skiff at the annex-side dock from 11:40 PM to 1:17 AM on July 9, and Callahan later purchased an identical Garmin in cash the same day Wendy texted about the outing.

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    15 min
  • The badge swipe at 11:54 p.m. stalled their rescue clock

    The badge swipe at 11:54 p.m. stalled their rescue clock
    Aug 20 2026
    A badge swipe at 11:54 p.m. puts a man near a sealed culvert where a woman in a stranger's coat was found - did they make it in time?

    The badge swipe at 11:54 p.m. stalled their rescue clock

    In this episode, we follow the timeline of Rebecca Solano's last night through the notes, surveillance, and logs that shaped the investigation. The episode tracks the moments and mismatches that forced detectives to reconcile a badge swipe, a thrifted coat, and a cracked boat to answer where Rebecca had been - and when.

    Person: Rebecca Solano
    Date: June 4
    Location: sealed culvert; east parking structure; community food pantry
    Person: Daniel Hansen
    Object: men's peacoat purchased June 1

    - Rebecca texted a friend at 7:38 p.m. saying she was walking to her car; her locked vehicle with keys inside was found where she always parked the next morning.
    - Officer Raymond recorded a dry concrete floor but a wet left sleeve and noted the anomaly without explanation in field notes.
    - A thrift-store receipt and time-stamped security footage show Daniel Hansen bought the men's peacoat three days before Rebecca disappeared.
    - Hansen first told investigators he was home by 9:15 p.m., then hospital badge logs showed his swipe through a service exit at 11:54 p.m.
    - Hansen named colleague Marcus Whitfield as a casual corroborator for his timeline; Whitfield's input initially framed the badge swipe as a possible clerical error.

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    14 min
  • The wrong bolt sealed the vault - did she get air in time?

    The wrong bolt sealed the vault - did she get air in time?
    Aug 19 2026
    A contractor finds a wrong bolt on a septic vault and opens it to discover Jennifer Hunter’s glasses and a library book-did she get air in time?

    The wrong bolt sealed the vault - did she get air in time?

    In this episode, we follow the evidence from a pump vault in Caulfield Lake to a timestamped hardware purchase and a manufactured service call that put a contractor on Jennifer Hunter’s property days before she vanished. How did a non-standard bolt, a withdrawn library book, and an invoice reshape the timeline of her disappearance?

    Person: Jennifer Hunter
    Location: Caulfield Lake, Tennessee
    Date: May 5-7
    Item: prescription reading glasses and a withdrawn copy of The Call of the Wild
    Person: Kenneth Johnson

    - Septic contractor Jennifer York arrived May 7 at about 9:00 a.m. to perform an annual pump-out and found the vault lid bolted with a non-standard 5/8" stainless bolt.
    - The lid covered a book open to page 47 and prescription reading glasses that matched Jennifer Hunter’s lenses and frames, undamaged and deliberately placed.
    - Security in the timeline: Jennifer was last accounted for around 9:00 p.m. on May 5, creating a 36-hour disappearance window before the vault was opened.
    - Four days earlier, on May 5 at 11:14 a.m., Kenneth Johnson purchased a single non-standard 5/8" stainless bolt at Mercer's Hardware, paying with a debit card with a timestamped receipt.
    - Johnson had sent a professional invoice to Jennifer’s address on May 2 for a “septic riser inspection,” a solicited service call that gave him authorized access to her yard days before she was reported missing.

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    17 min