The Notebook, the Pond, and the Brother Who Knew Too Little

Disappearance Stories · Oct 17, 2026 · 18m

The Notebook, the Pond, and the Brother Who Knew Too Little

A sealed Pembrook County evidence envelope was photographed floating in a retention pond above a submerged Chevrolet Malibu-36 hours after the car was reported stolen-and the fingerprints on a single blank sheet inside matched the man who had gone missing two days earlier. How did an evidence bag, a notebook found 30 miles away, and eight unexplained minutes on a dirt road become the only threads connecting Chad Brooks to a body in a pond?

In this episode, you'll hear how routine habits, a GPS log, and a single wrong root beer narrow…