The Tote Bag in the Ditch: How Eleven Years Hid a Killer

True Crime: Killer Confessions · Jul 23, 2026 · 18m

The Tote Bag in the Ditch: How Eleven Years Hid a Killer

Rainwater hid a tote bag for eleven years until a county road grader operator found it in standing water; inside were a library card, a checkbook with a last receipt dated June 9, 2011, and a volunteer notebook that linked a missing intake coordinator to a man who later committed dozens of burglaries. How did a personal-day entry, a clean car, and a single conversation about volunteer nights let a murderer remain hidden for more than a decade?

In this episode, we lay out the sequence of discoveries: the ditch find on a Tuesday morning…