The Phantom Work Order: How a Fake Visit Killed Duane Stevens

Unexplained Mysteries · Aug 11, 2026 · 20m

The Phantom Work Order: How a Fake Visit Killed Duane StevensA man dead on his kitchen floor, a yellow carbon-copy work order from a company that did not exist, and a date stamped a day before the murder - who used a fabricated service call to open Duane Stevens’s back door? The form was real, the company was fiction, and a partial thumbprint lifted forty years later would later lead to a guilty plea - but who manufactured the deception that cost Stevens his life?In this episode, we walk through the facts of the case: the discovered work order, the eyewitness accounts and later recantations…