A Dry Bag in a Flooded Yard: The Disappearance of Peggy Davis

A Dry Bag in a Flooded Yard: The Disappearance of Peggy Davis

A green canvas tote bag, perfectly dry, was found against a cinderblock wall after a storm on June 14, 2012 - and inside was an Ohio ID for a woman missing for twenty years. The bag contained a handwritten confession dated June 2012 that says Peggy Davis was buried on Silo Creek Road; who left it, and why wait two decades to reveal the truth?

In this episode, we lay out the timeline from Peggy's last call on June 3, 1992 to her mother's missing-person report and the original detective's conclusion, then follow the discovery in 2012 that reopened the mystery. How did a tidy, punctual twenty-three-year-old vanish, and what does the 2012 letter finally admit happened on June 9, 1992?

Person: Peggy Davis Date: Last known contact June 3, 1992 Location: Silo Creek Road property; Dunwich, Graber County, Ohio Status: Missing; belongings found June 14, 2012 Case: Initially declared voluntary departure in February 1993; new evidence found 2012

- Peggy was twenty-three years old in spring 1992. - Last phone call to her mother Connie was on Wednesday, June 3, 1992. - Missing-person report filed by Connie Davis on Thursday, June 11, 1992. - Detective Harris Vaughn worked the case for about eight months and reclassified it inactive by February 1993. - On June 14, 2012, a dry green canvas tote contained Peggy's Ohio ID, a spiral notebook with three pages torn out, $43 in a wallet, and an unsealed envelope with a handwritten page dated June 2012.

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