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The Lemon Wedge That Opened a Locked Door

The Lemon Wedge That Opened a Locked Door

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The Lemon Wedge That Opened a Locked Door

A single lemon wedge moved from the bottom of a sweet tea to the rim of a red cup - and a locked front door swung open one inch at 6:47 AM on June 14, 2001. That small, strange detail sat in an evidence log for eighteen years while a young phlebotomist's unexplained disappearance grew cold; what did that lemon wedge really mean?

In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events from Cynthia Callahan’s nightly routine to the initial investigation and the long period of stagnation, and we follow the faint trail that reappeared decades later: how did a routine file migration and a storage unit finally connect to this case?

Person: Cynthia Callahan
Date: June 14, 2001
Location: 412 Cutter Mill Road
Age: 22
Occupation: Phlebotomist

- Cynthia stopped at Burnside Gas and Grill around 7:15 AM the morning of June 13, 2001 and ordered a large sweet tea and cookies.
- The red Burnside cup with a lemon wedge was placed on the porch railing at 412 Cutter Mill Road.
- At 6:47 AM on June 14, 2001 a 15-year-old newspaper deliverer, Kimberly Vickers, tossed a paper at the front door and the door swung open one inch.
- Detective Lowell Hatch initially recorded the scene as a likely domestic incident and ruled out forced entry.
- By December 2001 the case was marked inactive and the lemon wedge remained an unexplained entry in the evidence log.

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