The two-season tide chart betrayed a falsified log and ruined an alibi
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The two-season tide chart betrayed a falsified log and ruined an alibi
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The two-season tide chart betrayed a falsified log and ruined an alibi
In this episode, we follow the routines that defined Carl Foster’s life - his daily pre-dawn run, the exact thirty-minute loop, the weekly calls, and the waterproof logbook he kept on the boat - and how small deviations became the clues investigators used to trace a break in those patterns. What in the rituals of a mariner and his neighbors becomes evidence when someone steps outside the rules?
Person: Carl Foster
Person: Robert Wells
Person: David Sheridan
Event: missing work order and unreturned key dated October 18
Location: red channel buoy / canal bank ninety feet from a storm drain inlet
- Carl ran the same thirty-minute route every morning, out before 6:40 and back by 7:10, never varying the turn.
- He replaced the tide chart inside his logbook every year without fail; the chart found was two seasons out of date.
- The waterproof logbook was recovered dry on a table inside a locked bait shed accessible by a key tied to an unfinished October 18 work order.
- Neighbors like Tom Haskell and Sandra Pruitt testified to Carl’s rigid habits: exact return times and a six-year streak of Wednesday calls.
- The storm drain inlet Michelle Cox found sat ninety feet from the red buoy where Carl always reversed course.
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