Locked Drawer, Century-Old Ledger, and the Smell of Woodsmoke
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Locked Drawer, Century-Old Ledger, and the Smell of Woodsmoke
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In this episode, we tell the documented sequence of what was found at Milepost Crossing, who discovered it, what federal records reveal across decades, and what remains officially unexplained: can a sealed archival report and two separate incidents across fifty-five years be pointing to the same unresolved event?
Person: Peggy Hall
Date: June 7, 2017
Location: Milepost Crossing, southern New Mexico, forty-one miles southeast of Garfield on State Route Nine
Person: Bernard Ketch
Status: Ledger found inside locked drawer that had not been accessed in fourteen months
- Peggy Hall was a sixty-one-year-old officer with twenty-three years on the southern New Mexico border and missed her Wednesday volunteer shift on June 7, 2017.
- The drawer containing the ledger had been locked and records showed no logged access to the regional key safe in the preceding fourteen months.
- The ledger measured approximately nine-by-twelve inches, had a cracked spine, water-stained pages, and handwriting in blue-black ink in both Spanish and English.
- Bernard Ketch filed three memos in 1962 describing woodsmoke and copper smells and papers appearing in a locked wooden cabinet; his memos led to his transfer and were sealed.
- The sealed archival report included a restriction citing "reputational sensitivity regarding personnel conduct" and took eleven days and two phone calls to unseal.
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