She Returns with No Memory: The Edna Claire Mystery

She Returns with No Memory: The Edna Claire Mystery

A working lobster boat returned to its exact slip with engine cold and lines tied, while its captain was found asleep aboard with no memory - after a Coast Guard search had reported nothing. Could a subtle change in medication explain a disappearance that left no trace and a perfect three-year logbook suddenly interrupted?

In this episode, we present the sequence of events on Pelham Cove between July 7 and July 9, 2019, the background of Rachel Richardson’s diagnosed sleep disorder, and the investigative details that follow from her blank logbook entry - what happened on the water, and why did the boat come back on its own?

Person: Rachel Richardson
Date: July 7-9, 2019
Location: Pelham Cove dock, slip fourteen
Condition: Non-REM parasomnia, medicated since 2017
Harbormaster: Phil Acosta

- The Edna Claire is a 32-foot lobster hauler with a white hull and orange trim.
- Rachel had run the Edna Claire out of Pelham Cove for 19 years as a solo operator.
- Her logbooks contained three years of daily entries with no blank pages until July 5, 2019.
- On July 7 she filled the fuel tank to 90 gallons, confirmed by a receipt.
- Christine Wagner found the boat in slip fourteen at 6:20 AM on July 9 with the engine cold and Rachel asleep, uninjured and memoryless.

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