The Wedding Guest Who Signed Mitchell Hale - Your Brother
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The Wedding Guest Who Signed Mitchell Hale - Your Brother
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The thought that chills: a wedding registry signed by "Mitchell Hale - with love, your brother" turned up inside a sealed, water‑bloated envelope pulled from the Sassafras River; the name matched Frances Simpson's father and a birth record but Frances had always been told she was an only child. How did a supposed sibling, born April 3, 1989, vanish from a life everyone believed they knew?
In this episode, we follow the paper trail from a Tuesday morning trotline find to county birth records and the stunned discovery Frances made when she inspected the registry she had kept for nearly a year. What does the birth certificate for Mitchell Warren Hale reveal about Frances's family story?
Person: Frances Simpson
Date: June 14, 2019
Event: Envelope recovered from Sassafras River containing wedding registry
Person: Mitchell Warren Hale
Date: April 3, 1989
- The envelope was found by Lauren Fisher on June 14, 2019 while checking trotlines in the lower bottoms of the Sassafras River.
- The wedding took place in June 2018 at the Clover Crossing VFW hall with forty-one guests listed on the registry.
- The recovered registry sheet contained forty-one known signatures plus one additional signature reading "Mitchell Hale - with love, your brother."
- Frances Simpson's father was Warren Alan Hale, who died of a stroke in 2012 when Frances was twenty-two.
- County birth records returned a single matching entry: Mitchell Warren Hale, born April 3, 1989 at Calloway Regional Hospital to Warren Alan Hale and Nadine Joyce Hale.
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