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  • The laminated feeding schedule that proved her neighbor killed her

    The laminated feeding schedule that proved her neighbor killed her
    Oct 18 2026
    A laminated foster feeding schedule found at a creek links a neighbor to a cold case - but how did that expose him?

    The laminated feeding schedule that proved her neighbor killed her

    In this episode, we follow the discovery of a laminated feeding schedule on Linda Henderson’s body and the decades-long trail of missing records, ruined files, and a sealed envelope that survived a flood. The episode traces the investigative steps and raises the question: how did that schedule and one preserved sample shift the inquiry?

    Person: Linda Henderson
    Date: July 14, 1991
    Location: Marsh Creek / Belden Trail
    Person: Edward Harris
    Event: 1998 municipal annex flood

    - A runner found Linda Henderson lying near Marsh Creek on the morning of July 14, 1991, with a laminated feeding schedule clipped to her belt.
    - Linda was a long-time foster caregiver who always kept a laminated care sheet taped inside her door and clipped to her belt during rotation days.
    - Shelter records show Linda had no foster animals the week of July 14; the schedule on her belt that day matched her handwriting and that week’s dates.
    - Neighbor Edward Harris rented the unit next to Linda’s, had visited her with foster animals, knew her 7 a.m./7 p.m. routine, and does not appear in the surviving 1991 investigation notes.
    - A watertight bag containing an envelope with skin cells from beneath Linda’s right thumbnail survived a 1998 flood; a 2022 DNA extraction matched Edward Harris in the state database.

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    15 mins
  • The assessor's note fingered a rotten porch board-and Janet fell

    The assessor's note fingered a rotten porch board-and Janet fell
    Oct 17 2026
    A sealed assessor’s note named a porch board, and six days later Janet stepped outside-how did that detail expose what happened on Crestline Drive?

    The assessor's note fingered a rotten porch board-and Janet fell

    In this episode, we follow the timeline and documents that connect a handwritten inspection note, a missing gate squeak, and a phone call at 6:45 a.m, on June 9, 2009. The episode lays out who was where, what was recorded, and which anomalies survived the original accidental ruling-what do those details mean?

    Person: Janet Harrison
    Date: June 9, 2009 (date of death), June 3, 2009 (assessor note)
    Location: 914 Crestline Drive, Millhaven, Indiana
    Event: Assessor field note naming "rear porch - third board from landing, soft, possible liability"
    Status: Official ruling was accidental death; case closed three weeks after investigation

    - A property assessor, Ralph Becker, inspected 914 Crestline Drive on June 3, 2009 and wrote six pages of notes including a precise line: "Rear porch - third board from landing, soft, possible liability."
    - Janet Harrison lived alone at 914 Crestline Drive, had a fixed routine (Wednesday calls at 6:45 a.m., pharmacy runs, gardening) and was found unresponsive at the foot of the back porch steps on June 11, 2009.
    - The medical examiner, Dr. Paul Steiner, recorded a hairline fracture at the base of Janet’s skull consistent with a backward fall onto the lowest porch step and estimated time of death around the early hours of June 9, 2009.
    - Neighbors and records described a dry, high squeak from the backyard gate latch that had been heard for eighteen years and, at some point, stopped making that sound.
    - Connie Harrison remembers a call at 6:45 a.m. on June 9, 2009 that connected, stayed silent for several seconds, and left no voicemail-an anchored detail that survived the original accident ruling.

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    22 mins
  • The logbook entry that stayed open put him at her door

    The logbook entry that stayed open put him at her door
    Oct 16 2026
    A single logbook entry placed a contractor at a young teacher’s door the afternoon before she was found drowned - how did that open time expose him?

    The logbook entry that stayed open put him at her door

    In this episode, we follow the timeline and evidence around Wendy Wallace’s death and the unanswered detail that never fit the official account. The episode traces the people, records, and decisions that left a gap in the case and asks how one missing "time out" might change everything.

    Person: Wendy Wallace
    Date: May 10, 1993 (found), May 9, 1993 (last happy evening)
    Location: Crestfield Gardens, Hartwell, Ohio
    Person: R. Osborne (signed as), Hartwell Gas and Electric
    Status: Case closed as accidental drowning after nine days

    - Wendy Wallace, 24, an elementary art teacher and avid bowler, was found fully clothed and submerged in her bathtub with shoes tied.
    - A visitor log entry at 4:47 p.m. on May 10 recorded "R. Osborne, Hartwell Gas and Electric, meter reading, ground floor east" with a time in but no time out.
    - A routine meter read should take about four minutes, yet the log leaves an unexplained open interval for Osborne on the afternoon before Wendy was found.
    - Within 48 hours a colleague's offhand report of dizziness steered the medical examiner toward "seizure activity"; no toxicology or neurology records were requested.
    - An EEG from November 1992 showing a normal brain existed in a clinic file that detectives never obtained.

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    18 mins
  • The forged signature that bought a killer twenty-five years

    The forged signature that bought a killer twenty-five years
    Oct 15 2026
    A forged signature at a care home and a pristine left shoe in the mud put a pharmacist’s disappearance on the wrong track - how did that expose them?

    The forged signature that bought a killer twenty-five years

    In this episode, we follow the chain of small, specific details that shaped a quarter-century investigation into Kathleen Stewart’s disappearance: a single upright shoe, a falsified Sycamore Gardens sign-in, and a pharmacy alarm that misdirected detectives. How did those clues steer investigators away from the truth and who used them to buy time?

    Person: Kathleen Stewart
    Date: April 3-9, 1996
    Location: Greenfield Pharmacy, Dellwood; Sycamore Gardens; Vernon Wells Trail
    Person: Brian Dempsey
    Event: forged visitor signature at Sycamore Gardens

    - A single left shoe, size seven, found standing upright in April mud nine feet off the path with a clean sole.
    - Kathleen Stewart closed Greenfield Pharmacy at ~6:30 p.m. on April 3, 1996 and never arrived at her weekly Wednesday visit to Sycamore Gardens.
    - A 6:48 p.m. entry in the Sycamore Gardens visitor log showed “Kathleen Stewart” with no exit and handwriting later identified as forged.
    - A 9:14 p.m. alarm at the pharmacy’s north service door became the focal point for a robbery theory that dominated the investigation.
    - Brian Dempsey, a Medline delivery driver whose Wednesday route matched Kathleen’s circuit, was unknown to Dellwood PD at the time and had access-related documents later stored in a false-bottom tote.

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    19 mins
  • The HVAC tag that proved the technician kept her key

    The HVAC tag that proved the technician kept her key
    Oct 14 2026
    A green HVAC inspection tag found in creek mud ties a vanished key to a farmhouse and a teacher's murder-how did that expose them?

    The HVAC tag that proved the technician kept her key

    In this episode, we follow the evidence trail from a green-and-white HVAC inspection tag found six inches into Aldren Creek to the forgotten work order hidden in a banker's box. The episode covers the people, records and decisions that connected a routine furnace service to a decades-old murder inquiry and asks how a retained key mattered to the case.

    Person: Victim: Christine Baker
    Person: Witness: Sandra Moore
    Person: Technician: Eric Morris
    Date: Body discovered: March 9, 1984
    Location: Cutter Road farmhouse, Aldren Creek

    - A Harlow County HVAC inspection certificate dated November 1982 was found pressed into the creek mud six feet from the body.
    - The furnace service was paid and filed under landlord Tom Waverly’s name, not the tenant's, and the work order sat in county storage.
    - Detective Ray Solis logged the tag in 1984 while pursuing other leads, including fingerprints on the back door belonging to ex-boyfriend Paul Greer.
    - A 2019 cold case review by Denise Petersen uncovered the WAVERLY RENTALS box and a work order noting: “key retained - follow-up inspection pending; coordinate with tenant.”
    - The technician listed on the work order, Eric Morris, had kept a key to the Cutter Road farmhouse after the November 1982 service.

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    16 mins
  • The tow-truck operator who waved Heather off and never left

    The tow-truck operator who waved Heather off and never left
    Oct 13 2026
    A county tow-truck operator finishes a call at milepost 38, then waves a Meals on Wheels driver off three miles away - how did that expose him?

    The tow-truck operator who waved Heather off and never left

    In this episode, we follow the thread connecting a missing Meals on Wheels volunteer, a decades-long string of calls from her son, and a dispatch log that refused to be destroyed. What do a five-minute gap, a county contractor badge, and an empty tow truck say about that night?

    Person: Heather Hunter
    Date: February 9, 1991
    Location: Route Seven, milepost 38; Meals on Wheels depot
    Person: Kevin (son)
    Person: Warren Wallace

    - Heather signed out of the depot at 8:14 p.m, after completing her Saturday route.
    - A county tow-truck unit signed off an assist at milepost 38 at 8:09 p.m. the same evening.
    - The depot sat 3.1 miles from milepost 38 - a five-minute window separates the two timestamps.
    - Warren Wallace was a county roadside-assistance contractor with a marked truck, uniform, and badge.
    - Kevin called the department roughly once a month for thirty-one years, creating a log that preserved a memo leading investigators back to the dispatch record.

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    15 mins
  • The Polaroid Sequence That Revealed How His Glove Framed Murder

    The Polaroid Sequence That Revealed How His Glove Framed Murder
    Oct 12 2026
    A Dellwood foreman’s wallet sealed in a concrete utility cap-how did a set of Polaroids expose who placed it there?

    The Polaroid Sequence That Revealed How His Glove Framed Murder

    In this episode, we follow how a routine discovery by a septic-service owner became the hinge of a thirty-year cold case. The episode covers the sequence of events from the discovery at Millrace Road to the reopening of the evidence box and asks what those six Polaroids and one missing left glove can reveal.

    Person: Stanley Cooper
    Date: January 11, 1973
    Location: Four Millrace Road, Dellwood, Indiana
    Event: Wallet and single right-hand glove found sealed in concrete utility cap
    Person: Kenneth Padgett

    - Kenneth Padgett, a forty-seven-year-old septic and well service owner, found the wallet and glove when he pried open the sealed utility cap and took six Polaroids in nine-degree weather.
    - The wallet contained a laminated ID for Stanley Cooper and seventeen dollars in cash; Cooper had been reported missing forty hours earlier.
    - Cooper, a forty-four-year-old foreman at Harlan Fabrication, was last seen January 9 at 6:14 p.m. leaving work with his coat, keys, and only his right-hand glove.
    - Detective Roy Fenwick processed the evidence in 1973, labeled the box Cooper S./73, kept it at retirement, and the box passed to the Dellwood Police Department after his death.
    - In January 2003, cold-case detective Janet Dempsey found the box, spread Padgett’s six Polaroids in order, noted fresh mortar sealing the cap, and pulled the contractor records for four Millrace Road.

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    18 mins
  • The Paint Can That Left the Back Door Open and Buried Her

    The Paint Can That Left the Back Door Open and Buried Her
    Oct 11 2026
    A highway photographer finds a jaw half-buried in frozen clay-how did that photograph expose the gap in a missing art teacher’s case?

    The Paint Can That Left the Back Door Open and Buried Her

    In this episode, we trace how a single telephoto image reopened the case of Cynthia Carter and spotlight the investigative choices that left a crucial back entrance unexamined. What decisions and blind spots kept a gravel yard, a paint-can-propped door, and a contractor off the record for decades?

    Person: Cynthia Carter
    Date: December 9, 1991 (last seen); March 4, 2023 (photograph)
    Location: Millgate, Harlen County; gravel yard on Route Nine
    Person: Detective Ron Mabry
    Person: Clifford Dalton

    - Photographer Bruce Barnes was shooting soil erosion from a highway embankment when his telephoto lens captured a human jaw half-swallowed by frozen clay.
    - Cynthia Carter, a 28-year-old elementary art teacher, attended a ceramics class the night she disappeared and was never seen again after leaving the community center.
    - The duplex where Cynthia lived had a front door with a key held by her boyfriend Marcus Webb, and an unattended rear utility door propped open with a paint can by the upstairs tenant.
    - Detective Ron Mabry’s original canvass focused on front-door access and social acquaintances, producing three years of investigation centered on Marcus Webb while other leads remained unexplored.
    - HVAC contractor Clifford Dalton serviced both the duplex and the private gravel yard-locations connected by lay of the land-but his name does not appear in the 1991-1994 investigative record.

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    16 mins