The Mug at the Red Oak: Why Valerie's Nail Was Left There
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The Mug at the Red Oak: Why Valerie's Nail Was Left There
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A turquoise diner mug sat upright at the base of a red oak, two hundred and forty yards from the nearest road, containing a single clipped fingernail with coral-pink polish that matched a missing woman’s DNA - who walked into the trees to leave it, and why was a personal item carried there three years after she vanished? This discovery tied an ordinary coffee mug to a three-year disappearance and opened a new, chilling question the investigation could not ignore.
In this episode, we tell what the mug, the fingernail, and the last known movements of Valerie Reed reveal about her disappearance and the unanswered window of twenty-eight minutes on the night she went missing - could a routine object point to where she went and who walked that deliberate path into the woodlot?
Person: Valerie Reed
Date: January 2011 (last confirmed image) and January 2014 (mug found)
Location: woodlot four miles northeast of downtown Pelham
Status: missing
Investigator: Sergeant Sharon Long
- Valerie Reed, age 44 in January 2011, worked nine years as an accounts payable coordinator at Brentwood Office Solutions.
- A camera at Brentwood captured Valerie walking toward the parking lot at 6:47 PM on a Tuesday in January 2011; her car remained in the lot with engine cold the next morning.
- A coworker reported Valerie's car still in the lot at 7:15 PM, creating a 28-minute unexplained window after the last confirmed image.
- A turquoise Norbert's diner mug with the logo was found upright at the base of a red oak in January 2014, 240 yards from the nearest road and within undisturbed leaves.
- Forensics found a single clipped fingernail inside the mug with coral-pink polish; the partial DNA profile matched Valerie via a reference sample from her sister Lynne Castellano.
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