A Shot in the Dark (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
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Hey, Prime members, you can binge eight new episodes of the Mr. Ballin podcast one month early and all episodes ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the Amazon Music app today. On a spring morning in 2017, a mother of three in Evansville, Indiana logged onto Facebook and noticed a story in her newsfeed that made her heart start to race. Just a couple of hours earlier, the body of a young woman had been found in a field one town over, and police still had no clue who the young woman was. Now, the physical description was vague, but it matched all three of the mother's daughters. So right away, she picked up her phone and began trying to reach each of them to make sure they were okay. Her two youngest girls replied within minutes, but the oldest one of them did not. And with every minute that passed by without a word from her, the mother became more and more frantic until she finally reached out to a friend of hers on the police force.
And what she would soon learn before the morning ended would change her family's life forever and change the course of two separate police investigations. But before we get into that story, if you're a fan of the Strange, Dark, and Mysterious delivered in story format, then you've come to the right podcast because that's all we do and we upload twice a week, once on Monday and once on Thursday. So if that's of interest to you, please tape an air horn behind the follow button's front door to act as their new doorstop. Okay, let's get into today's story. The show is brought to you by Progressive. Fiscally responsible, financial geniuses, monetary magicians. These are things people say about drivers who switch their car insurance to Progressive and save hundreds.
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On the afternoon of Sunday, April 23rd, 2017, 20-year-old Haley Rathgeber walked across the busy dining room of the Texas Roadhouse Restaurant in Evansville, Indiana, carrying two plates of hot food from the kitchen. Haley stopped at a table near a window and set the plates down in front of a pair of customers. Then she gave a big smile and told them to enjoy the meal. But as Haley walked back towards the kitchen, she happened to glance up at the clock on the wall. And when she saw the time, her smile totally disappeared and she felt this jolt of anxiety. Haley knew in a little under an hour, her shift would be over and she would no longer have work to take her mind off this insane secret that she was keeping from almost everybody she knew.
Earlier that month, one of Haley's best friends, a young woman named Jordan Hughes, had lost her 10-month-old baby in a devastating accident. Jordan's boyfriend, who was not the baby's father but was helping take care of him, had been home alone with the baby. He'd strapped the baby into a car seat and started walking down the stairs in the house when he suddenly tripped over a diaper bag and he and the baby both went tumbling down the steps, which ultimately resulted in the child's death. Or at least, that's what he had told his girlfriend Jordan and the police. Jordan had gotten the news quickly about her child and rushed to the hospital, hoping her baby would survive, and she told Hailey everything that had happened and asked Hailey to go to her house to pick up some things for her and bring them back to the hospital. But when Hailey got to Jordan's house, she quickly realized that the story Jordan's boyfriend had told them didn't make any sense.
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