The Glove on the Ice: How a Receipt Cracked a Killer

True Crime: Killer Confessions · Sep 1, 2026 · 20m · transcript

The Glove on the Ice: How a Receipt Cracked a Killer

Cold precision turned ordinary routine into a crime scene: a burgundy wool glove weighted with stones sat palm-up on Tanners Creek ice with no footprints around it, and a folded carbon-copy delivery receipt tucked inside. Four days earlier Angela Thompson had vanished; twenty-nine years later that paper would become the hinge of the case - but how did a routine delivery route and one misplaced receipt point to a killer?

In this episode, we tell what happened from Angela's steady daily life and her last known routines to the discovery on the…