The Mug, the Map, and the Night a Surveyor Whispered a Burial Site

The Mug, the Map, and the Night a Surveyor Whispered a Burial Site

A hospital bed, a cream-colored mug with a bluebell, and a folded note naming a hospital room and a buried location-found by a meter reader at 6:10 a.m. on May 14, 2011. Two retired surveyors, a night nurse, and a flagstone in a private garden connect across forty minutes of road and a fragmenting mind-what was whispered in that room that only led to a shovel and a discovery?

In this episode, you will hear a step-by-step telling of the events inside Dunfield Memorial in early May 2011: who handled the mug, who received the instruction, and how a hospital patient with no documented link to a street named Caldwell Road pointed a nurse to a specific flagstone-what changed when investigators lifted it?

Person: Howard Clark
Date: May 14, 2011
Location: Dunfield Memorial Hospital, east wing
Person: Walter Grimes
Person: Raymond Mercer

- At 6:10 a.m. on May 14, 2011, meter reader Howard Clark found a cream-colored mug on a utility box outside the east wing.
- The mug contained a folded note in block letters naming a hospital room and a buried location beneath a flagstone in a private garden.
- Walter Grimes, patient in room 114, had been admitted around May 7, 2011, after a cardiac event and kept a paperback western on his bedside table.
- Security footage shows a figure carrying a mug with a painted bluebell entering the east wing and reaching room 114, staying less than 20 minutes on the evening of May 10.
- At 2:45 a.m. on May 12, 2011, nurse Erin Zimmerman was told by Walter Grimes to look under the flagstone by the rain barrel in the Mercer garden on Caldwell Road.

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