The Upright Glasses: How a Breakwater Hid a Murdered Man

Forgotten Mysteries · Sep 17, 2026 · 20m

The Upright Glasses: How a Breakwater Hid a Murdered Man

A pair of brown plastic reading glasses sat upright inside a sealed granite cavity on the Maine coast for twenty-two years, lenses unscratched and a right temple taped, a detail that ultimately unraveled a presumed drowning. How did a man who clocked out at 5:47 p.m. on September 13, 2001, vanish without a body while his glasses stayed hidden in a breakwater forty feet from where his car was parked-and what did a single spiral notebook prove about that forty-three-minute window?

In this episode, we lay out the sequence of what was known…