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She Came for the Power: How a Fake Meter Reader Vanished Her Neighbor

She Came for the Power: How a Fake Meter Reader Vanished Her Neighbor

A woman impersonating a utility worker walked into a 62-year-old caterer’s house during an 11:17 p.m. power outage and left her neighbor vanished; a coffee can with a ring, placed before morning dew, was the only odd clue found on a marsh fence post. How did access to an account record, a prepared basement, and that quiet coastal marsh clue fit together - and who planned each step?

In this episode, we follow the sequence of events from the August outage through the discovery that preceded the missing-person report, laying…

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