The Jacket on Portman Street: How a Dry Lining Broke the Case
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The Jacket on Portman Street: How a Dry Lining Broke the Case
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A rain-soaked denim jacket with a completely dry lining was found folded on a gas meter at 7:42 AM on May 9, 2017 - a detail that contradicted the weather and suggested someone had placed it there before the storm. That dry lining became the thread Detective Christine Russo followed as she pieced together twenty-two text messages, a frozen compass needle, and a northeast garden where the story ended; who folded the jacket and left it on Portman Street?
In this episode, we walk through the timeline from May 3 to May 9, 2017, the people connected to Gail Nelson, and the clues that led investigators toward Portman Street and Steven Simpson - starting with a single jacket and the question that followed: who would set it down and intend to return?
Person: Gail Nelson
Date: May 3-9, 2017
Location: Portman Street
Person: Detective Christine Russo
Person: Steven Simpson
- A meter reader, Edward Price, found the folded denim jacket on a gas meter at 7:42 AM on May 9, 2017.
- The jacket’s outer shell was soaked from overnight rain while the lining was completely dry, indicating it had been placed there before the rain.
- Gail Nelson had been missing for six days and was twenty-four years old, a fifth-year environmental science student at Calloway State University.
- Twenty-two text messages were exchanged between Gail’s phone and the number registered to thirty-one-year-old Steven Simpson between May 3 and May 5.
- Detective Christine Russo, age forty-one with six years in the detective division, was assigned the missing persons case on the morning of May 8, 2017.
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