A contractor's printed crawl-space latch code on a city work order opened her back door - and his van shows he came back the night she died.

The crawl-space latch code on the work order opened her back door

In this episode, we follow the timeline that starts with a coat found buttoned and upright in a crawl space and stretches through invoices, receipts, and a printed access code on a city work order. What do the contractor's paperwork and a late-night gas-station timestamp reveal about access to Amy Watson's house and the gap in his reported movements?

Person: Amy Watson
Location: 914 Dellard Street
Date: February 7 (time of death estimated between 9:00 and 11:00 PM)
Person: Philip Thompson
Event: Contractor retained work order with eleven-digit crawl-space latch code

- A woman's coat, buttoned and standing upright on a pipe in the crawl space, was the first oddity investigators found.
- Amy missed a weekly volunteer shift on February 8 after never missing in 156 weeks and never calling ahead.
- Thompson invoiced an exit at 3:40 PM on February 5 but a gas-station receipt places his van two blocks from 914 Dellard at 9:07 PM on February 7.
- Millhaven work orders print an eleven-digit crawl-space access code; Thompson wrote that exact code on his retained copy.
- Investigator April Mills found a prior case: Thompson serviced Sandra Kowalski four days before her January 2017 death in the same city.

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