The Calendar That Proved a Judge's "Suicide" Was Murder

Mystery Stories and Unsolved Cases · Sep 21, 2026 · 18m · transcript

The Calendar That Proved a Judge's "Suicide" Was Murder

A river returned a clean, unreadable-by-water leather calendar that belonged to a judge declared dead three days earlier, and on its April 7 page someone had written a name, a time, and the chilling order: "Do not log." How did that small, dry object survive the Marne and sit unnoticed in evidence for nineteen years while a cold case called a suicide stood? What did that entry mean, and who left it?

In this episode, we lay out the sequence of discovered facts from April 2001 that were recorded, stored, and later re-examined: the state of…