A county road-grader blade uncovers a buried hand - the elevator manager is implicated, but how do you fall from that high?

The weight-cert note that toppled him from the elevator

In this episode, we follow the timeline from a missing Tuesday evening to a gravel berm uncovered by a grader and the ordinary routines that stop without warning. The episode covers the discovery, scene details, and the records that tied the case to the local co-op; what happens next raises the question of who among the county’s familiar faces knew enough to hide a body in plain infrastructure?

Date: January 9
Person: Gloria Hansen
Location: County Road 14, Dellard County
Employer: Scofield Ag Co-op
Entry: "weight cert discrepancy, Farms 7, 11, 14, ask KP"

- Gloria left the Scofield co-op about 5:40 p.m. on Tuesday, January 6, with an hour and twenty minutes before choir at Millhaven Lutheran.
- Her orange laminated lanyard reading "GLORIA / Millhaven Lutheran / Soprano II" was still around her neck when a grader revealed her left hand in a roadside berm.
- The berm had been pushed into place on January 3; the site is two miles from the co-op and accessible via a tractor easement parallel to the highway.
- Gloria kept a handwritten field notebook and on January 5 recorded a note linking weight certification discrepancies at Farms 7, 11, and 14 to "KP" - Kent Phillips, the elevator manager.
- Investigators later tied three key items to the case: a fuel ledger entry, a field notebook, and a frozen plug of clay from a truck bed - none of which were found on January 9.

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