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The Messenger Bag Left Upright: What They Missed in Eleven Minutes

The Messenger Bag Left Upright: What They Missed in Eleven Minutes

Forty-seven dollars in cash, a wallet, and a library card sat untouched in a brown leather messenger bag found upright against a locked chain-link fence seven days after Melvin Doyle vanished - and the bag was 140 yards from the nearest public road. Who carried that bag to a place that required crossing a locked gate or walking an active railroad easement in the dark, and why was nothing inside taken?

In this episode, we walk through the timeline from the last confirmed records to the moment a volunteer found the bag behind…

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