You see the unmarked van in the alley-do you confront it or call 911?
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You see the unmarked van in the alley-do you confront it or call 911?
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You see the unmarked van in the alley-do you confront it or call 911?
In this episode, we follow the morning a padded mailer arrives containing a burgundy datebook that should not exist and the questions that rip open a settled case. The episode traces the days, calls, and small domestic details that suggest a planned intrusion and asks what we do when certainty collapses.
Person: Susan Hale
Date: July 8, 2019 (body discovered); March 2021 (mailer arrival)
Location: Crestwood Drive
Event: Unmarked white utility van seen July 5 and July 7; rear light on back door found on July 8
Topic: Datebook mailed from Trenton Correctional Facility to deceased woman’s sister
- Susan Hale lived alone on Crestwood Drive, kept two rabbits named Marlo and Fig, and measured Marlo’s cardiac medication into a painted ceramic dish every morning at six.
- A neighbor found Susan’s rear door slightly open on the morning of July 8 and called police; Officer Rachel Fitzgerald arrived at 7:52 a.m. and the rear light was on.
- Two residents reported seeing a white utility van without any company logo parked on Crestwood Drive on July 5 and July 7; one witness, retired teacher Orson Pratt, noticed the lack of markings.
- A work order for July 7 exists for a technician named Greg Solis at a strip mall whose rear wall shares an alley with Crestwood Drive properties, providing possible access between the van and the houses.
- Susan called her friend Diane Mercer at 9:52 p.m. on July 7 for eleven minutes and mentioned a flickering rear light she planned to check before bed; the light was found on the next morning.
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