A Dead Man's Meal: The Leonard Patton Case
A Dead Man's Meal: The Leonard Patton Case
Something ordinary - a diner receipt found face-up in sleet - turns into an unnerving puzzle: the ticket records the exact Thursday meal a man named Leonard Patton ordered for 31 years, though he died four months earlier and the soup listed wasn't even on the winter menu. Who sat at his counter and paid cash for his ritual meal on December 9, and why did a volunteer-recorded jacket sale and a rare 1979 Eisenhower dollar become the only tangible traces?
In this episode, we walk through the sequence of events from the receipt discovery to the small…
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