The Film Canister That Named a Killer - 48 Years Buried

True Crime: Killer Confessions · Aug 22, 2026 · 15m

The Film Canister That Named a Killer - 48 Years Buried

Fear that a single buried object could hold the truth - an aluminum film canister sealed inside a rusted drainage pipe rewritten a 48-year-old double homicide case. A degraded photograph found decades earlier showed an unidentified figure in a jacket with a diagonal shoulder stripe; the canister recovered in 2019 finally linked that image to a name. Who did Kathleen Coleman and Donald Pratt’s last hours point to, and how did a maintenance visit noted in a ledger become the missing link?

In this episode, we tell how routine evidence, a…