Zip‑lock on the Pelcher: How a Wet Note Saved Sharon Sharp

Missing person stories · Sep 25, 2026 · 19m · transcript

Zip‑lock on the Pelcher: How a Wet Note Saved Sharon Sharp

A single wet zip‑lock bag pressed against a submerged root held a folded note that led investigators straight to a locked bedroom and a woman found alive - and it began with a man who routinely ran trotlines before work. The last confirmed sighting of Sharon Sharp was at 4:15 p.m. on April 8, 2019, her phone pinging last at 4:22 p.m.; how did a grocery receipt and a volunteer roster expose the person who signed up to help search for her?

In this episode, we follow the timeline from Sharon’s circled Thursday trivia night and the cold…