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She Woke With Soil - Her Hospital Bracelet Tied To The River

A hospital bracelet washed up on a trotline stake thirty yards from shore-dry, knotted above the waterline, and printed with the name Melissa Ford; she had been found unconscious in her backyard days earlier with soil on her hands and no memory of the river. How did a left-handed knot and a dry hospital band end up in four feet of water while no one saw a boat or a person near that stretch of the Carver? What happened between her bed and that stake?

In this episode, we follow the timeline from May first through the morning the bracelet was found and lay out the concrete events, people, and medical facts that shaped the mystery. You’ll hear where Melissa was the night her bracelet was issued, who found the bracelet, and the strange remark from a patient that opened a new question: who, if anyone, saw her in the water?

Person: Melissa Ford
Date: May 1-9 (key events between May 1 and May 9)
Location: Carver River (stake ~30 yards from bank, ~4 feet deep)
Event: Hospital bracelet printed May 2 at Alderton Memorial
Person: Ryan Berry

- Melissa Ford was 26 years old and worked night shift as a licensed practical nurse at Alderton Memorial.
- On May 1 she left choir rehearsal at ~9:15 PM, watered a garden bed, and went to bed at ~10:00 PM; the temperature that night was 61°F.
- Doug Neff found Melissa unconscious in her backyard at 11:45 PM with the back door open and soil on her knees and palms.
- A hospital ID bracelet reading "Melissa Ford - May second - Alderton Memorial" was printed and placed on her left wrist at 12:30 AM on May 2.
- At 4:40 AM on May 9 Ryan Berry found the same bracelet tied to a trotline stake in ~4 feet of water, 30 yards from the bank, knotted with a left-handed half-hitch.

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