The Jar in the Crawlspace: Hidden Will, Vanished Woman, 27 Years

True Crime: Killer Confessions · Aug 29, 2026 · 20m · transcript

The Jar in the Crawlspace: Hidden Will, Vanished Woman, 27 Years

A mason jar wedged in a crawlspace held a typed will that named a young woman heir to forty-three acres - and beneath it lay a body that had been there for twenty-seven years. How did a legitimate will disappear, get replaced with a forged one using ink not manufactured until after the death, and a woman vanish with no trace while her weekly phone calls stopped cold?

In this episode, we follow the sequence of events from a lineman finding glass in a ventilation gap to a genealogist and a detective reopening a case that was…