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The Tuesday Booth: Half-Eaten Meals and a Missing Visitor's Shadow

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The Tuesday Booth: Half-Eaten Meals and a Missing Visitor's Shadow

A routine Tuesday at a small Ohio diner became a slow-burning puzzle: three mornings in a row a regular's eggs were half-eaten at the second-from-the-window booth she had occupied for more than twenty years. Who left those meals, why was nothing reported to police, and what connection links a seventy-three-year-old day-tripper to that exact seat?

In this episode, you will hear how a county surveyor's field note, a waitress's morning log, and a social worker's case notes intersect to raise that question. We follow the pattern of dates, diner habits, and a decades-old family split to ask whether proximity can create an unseen presence - and what the records really reveal.

Person: Kathleen Richardson
Person: Frances Odell
Person: Bev Colton
Date: October 18, 2010
Location: Patsy's Diner, Millhaven, Ohio

- At 9:14 AM on December 9, 2011, county surveyor Edward Holmes recorded "booth with partially consumed meal, unoccupied."
- Kathleen Richardson had used the second-from-the-window booth since winter 1989 and came every Tuesday morning for over twenty years.
- Lorraine Richardson died in March 2004; she and Kathleen had shared the Tuesday ritual for fifteen years before that.
- On October 18, November 2, and November 23, 2010, Frances Odell found Kathleen's usual order partially eaten after Kathleen had left.
- Bev Colton was 73 years old in 2011 and, according to social worker Patricia Dunn's notes, began taking occasional early-morning day trips to see a family member she had not spoken to in a long time.

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