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You see the propane truck at your curb - do you open the back gate?

You see the propane truck at your curb - do you open the back gate?

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A propane truck idles at a curb while a neighbor spots a driver at a back gate-what do you do when routine presence becomes surveillance?

You see the propane truck at your curb - do you open the back gate?

In this episode, we lay out the ordinary patterns and precise details that turned a routine service route into the central clue in a criminal inquiry. We follow how small habits and company logs became the question investigators used to push the case forward: what does it mean when someone shows up one time too many?

Person: Karen Reynolds
Person: Douglas Stevens
Location: Fourteen Sycamore Terrace, Harlow Creek, Garfield County, Washington
Date: October 7-13 (multiple visits)
Topic: Propane delivery route logs and unexplained pressure-check entries

- A single set of lab-confirmed boot prints leads from the rear gate to the back door with no return prints.
- Karen Reynolds kept strict household routines-recycling Tuesdays, a weekly Wednesday phone call-that made her patterns predictable.
- Douglas Stevens, a propane driver for Cascade Valley Fuel, logged five visits to Reynolds’s house; four were recorded as nonstandard “pressure checks.”
- Phil Ortega, Stevens’s supervisor, confirmed pressure checks are not standard protocol and generate no service orders.
- Nora Vance remembered Reynolds mentioning the driver walking her back fence on a nonscheduled day, a detail investigators later treated as pivotal.

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