Judge Found in Ditch: The Robe, Eleven Letters, and a Long Buried Lie

True Crime: Killer Confessions · Jul 23, 2026 · 19m

Judge Found in Ditch: The Robe, Eleven Letters, and a Long Buried Lie

A respected circuit judge was found in frozen mud at the edge of a rural ditch, dressed in her full-length black judicial robe on a day she had no reason to be in court - her only wardrobe key was missing and would never be recovered. Eleven unsent letters she wrote four days before her death were hidden for thirty years in a retired attorney’s archive; what did those letters reveal that no investigator read at the time?

In this episode, we tell the story of the discovery, the missing time between the judge’s last known…