in Edward's kitchen (Davis used a separately cut second key)

Missing person stories · Oct 18, 2026 · 21m

in Edward's kitchen (Davis used a separately cut second key)

A man had been living inside Edward Hughes's house with a secretly duplicated key; the rear strike plate showed fresh parallel scoring from a slightly offcut key while the original key hung on its hook. Who made that second key, and how did Edward survive six days trapped in a concrete-block cellar with only a bent nail and a fourteen-inch window?

In this episode, we walk through the timeline from Edward's routine morning feeding to the welfare call that triggered a check, the detective's discovery of the scored strike plate, and…