The Coat Buttoned to a Locked Dock - Where Was Lisa?
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The Coat Buttoned to a Locked Dock - Where Was Lisa?
Cold, impossible details cling to this case: a dark green coat buttoned, every single button, around an iron post on a dock that had been locked for nineteen years, and undisturbed frost on the planks around it. Four miles away the coat's owner walked barefoot on a frozen road with no memory of the night - so how did her coat end up on a dock no one could access?
In this episode, we present the sequence of events, witness accounts, ticket records and the small town routines that made Lisa's disappearance so alarming, leading to one unresolved question that ties the coat to the woman who vanished: which of the two facts explains the other?
Person: Lisa Schmidt
Age: 44
Location: Crestwick, on the Aldenmoor River
Date: March 11 (night of disappearance)
Event: Ferry crossing with round-trip ticket
- Lisa bought a round-trip ferry ticket at 7:45 p.m. the night she vanished.
- Lisa had given her dog Otto his evening medication at 7:00 p.m., a ritual never missed in 18 months.
- Nine passengers boarded the ferry; eight disembarked at Portsmith and Lisa was not among them.
- The ferry crossing took 22 minutes each way; the vessel docked back in Crestwick at 8:38 p.m, with Lisa absent.
- A dark green coat was found buttoned around a rusted iron post on a dock that had been closed and locked for 19 years.
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Cold, impossible details cling to this case: a dark green coat buttoned, every single button, around an iron post on a dock that had been locked for nineteen years, and undisturbed frost on the planks around it. Four miles away the coat's owner walked barefoot on a frozen road with no memory of the night - so how did her coat end up on a dock no one could access?
In this episode, we present the sequence of events, witness accounts, ticket records and the small town routines that made Lisa's disappearance so alarming, leading to one unresolved question that ties the coat to the woman who vanished: which of the two facts explains the other?
Person: Lisa Schmidt
Age: 44
Location: Crestwick, on the Aldenmoor River
Date: March 11 (night of disappearance)
Event: Ferry crossing with round-trip ticket
- Lisa bought a round-trip ferry ticket at 7:45 p.m. the night she vanished.
- Lisa had given her dog Otto his evening medication at 7:00 p.m., a ritual never missed in 18 months.
- Nine passengers boarded the ferry; eight disembarked at Portsmith and Lisa was not among them.
- The ferry crossing took 22 minutes each way; the vessel docked back in Crestwick at 8:38 p.m, with Lisa absent.
- A dark green coat was found buttoned around a rusted iron post on a dock that had been closed and locked for 19 years.
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