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The Stuff Sack in the Tree: How a Badge Broke Silence

A hospital visitor badge with the name Steven Phillips was found perched on a stuff sack four feet up a tulip poplar-beneath it, a disposable camera and a wallet containing Craig Campbell’s Kentucky driver’s license. How did a badge issued at Dunbar Regional Medical Center end up tucked into a tree above evidence tied to a man later found murdered?

In this episode, we recount the timeline from the July fourteenth discovery on Kessler Ridge Trail to Craig Campbell’s body recovery on July twenty-sixth, and follow how an overlooked camera and a forgotten badge reshaped the investigation. Who placed the sack in the tree, and why did that small act become the key that finally broke the silence?

Person: Craig Allen Campbell
Date: July 14, 2023 (sack found); July 18, 2023 (last seen); July 26, 2023 (body recovered)
Location: Kessler Ridge Trail, Dunbar, Kentucky
Event: Stuff sack with camera, grocery list, and wallet found in tree; body recovered from culvert drainage channel
Status: Homicide; visitor badge catalogued; camera initially undeveloped

- The stuff sack was found wedged four feet high in a tulip poplar on July 14, 2023.
- Inside the sack were a disposable single-use camera, a folded notebook paper, and a leather wallet containing Craig Campbell’s Kentucky driver’s license.
- The hospital visitor badge reading Steven Phillips was issued April 9, 2023, for a 47-minute visit at Dunbar Regional Medical Center.
- Craig Campbell was last seen leaving the Hadley Brothers warehouse on July 18, 2023, and his body was recovered on July 26, 2023, three-quarters of a mile east of Kessler Ridge Trail.
- Lead investigator Roy Altman spent eight months building a case around Curtis Brody before the prosecutor declined to charge him.

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