Sneaker in Concrete: How a Packing Plant Hid a Girl for 36 Years

Sneaker in Concrete: How a Packing Plant Hid a Girl for 36 Years

A single child’s sneaker stopped a grader blade at 2:07 p.m., revealing remains that would close a thirty-six-year mystery; the girl was found half-compressed beneath a loading-bay slab after a documented concrete pour two weeks after her disappearance-who signed the work order that buried the answer?

In this episode, we lay out the timeline, the missed searches, and the files that sat untouched for decades, and follow the records and personnel who tied a drainage repair to a missing nine-year-old; how did routine plant paperwork point investigators back to the place everyone had overlooked?

Person: Amanda White Date: Last seen September 13, 1983 Location: Northeast loading bay, Vellum Packing plant, Harwick, Indiana Status: Identified by dental records after excavation in September 2019 Event: Documented drainage repair concrete pour dated two weeks after disappearance

- The road-grader blade struck the sneaker at 2:07 p.m, on a Tuesday in September 2019. - The sneaker was a white canvas high-top, size three, with a pink lace threaded through all but the top two eyelets. - Amanda White was nine years old and last seen walking south on Creedmore Lane, less than 400 yards from home. - A work order in the Vellum Packing files documented a drainage repair concrete pour in the northeast loading bay dated late September 1983. - The work order was signed by maintenance supervisor Clifford O'Brien and was found in personnel and maintenance records that had been stored since the plant closed in 1991.

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