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The fuel card that placed him on Route Nine at 9:40 PM

The fuel card that placed him on Route Nine at 9:40 PM

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A mechanic’s fuel card logs him on Route Nine at 9:40 PM the night Linda Green vanished, tying a local routine to a violent interruption.

The fuel card that placed him on Route Nine at 9:40 PM

In this episode, we follow the timeline and tangible traces that shaped an investigation into Linda Green’s disappearance and death. What did a surviving submerged phone, a repeated method of ligature, and a fuel-card transaction together reveal about who was where and when?

Person: Linda Green
Location: Alkali Creek, Calla County
Person: Dean Hansen
Event: fuel card transaction at 9:40 PM
Method: ligature used in death

- Linda worked at the truck stop in Calvert Junction and drove Route Nine every Thursday between 8:40 and 9:30 PM.
- Her phone was recovered in four inches of creek water after seventy-two hours and still received calls with a partial charge.
- Linda left her grandfather Ray Green’s house without a coat the night she disappeared, narrowing where she could have been intercepted.
- Dean Hansen ran the mechanic’s shop at the truck stop and later wrote that he watched her shift window for six weeks.
- Hansen’s fuel card recorded a purchase fourteen miles east of his shop at 9:40 PM on the night of Linda’s disappearance.

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