The Pie Tin That Unraveled a Seven‑Year Fugitive Hunt

Hunting the Killer · Jul 26, 2026 · 20m

The Pie Tin That Unraveled a Seven‑Year Fugitive Hunt

Cold proof can feel impossibly small: a single-serving aluminum pie tin tagged entry number 47, date-stamped eleven days before it was found in a sealed cellar of a vacant rental outside Harwick, Indiana - left in a property that had been empty since the previous October. That tin, with a third-place ribbon traced back to a borrowed name at a county grange, pulled a seven-year disappearance into daylight; how did one pie entry undo years of silence?

In this episode, we follow the discovery, the records, and the people who never stopped…