The Burgundy Planner That Traveled 1,917 Miles - No Explanation

The Burgundy Planner That Traveled 1,917 Miles - No Explanation

Cold hands pulled a burgundy vinyl planner from a frozen ditch where everything else was solid; its pages were bone dry and its cover named Gloria Rogers in neat handwriting - a woman who lived 1,917 miles away in Portland, Oregon. How did a planner bought every December and left at a truck-stop lost-and-found end up buried roadside in central Missouri, intact and unreadable by weather?

In this episode, we follow the documented chain of events that links a truck-stop counter in Sagebrush, Missouri to a deserted ditch at mile marker 214, tracing every logged transfer and theft that moved the planner across months and miles - and we ask whether coincidence is enough to explain such precise connections.

Person: Gloria Rogers
Date: February 8, 2011
Location: mile marker 214, central Missouri
Event: planner found in roadside ditch
Case: lost-and-found item from Sagebrush truck stop

- The planner was found on Tuesday, February 8, 2011 in a roadside ditch where the temperature was eleven degrees.
- The planner’s cover bore the name and address "Gloria Rogers, 441 Sable Court, Apartment 6, Portland, Oregon," a distance of 1,917 miles from the find location.
- Gloria left an identical burgundy planner at a Sagebrush truck-stop counter on the pre-dawn of February 8, 2010 and it was placed in the lost-and-found by attendant Susan Pryce.
- The Sagebrush truck stop closed in August 2010 and its lost-and-found tote was placed in a salvage load that went to a storage facility near Millhaven, Missouri, 18 miles west of Sagebrush.
- In January 2011 the storage unit was broken into; thieves stole tools and dumped paper goods roadside, an incident documented in a police report that Thompson used to trace the planner’s movements.

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