{"id":6408,"date":"2026-09-18T03:16:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T03:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/?p=6408"},"modified":"2026-09-18T03:16:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T03:16:48","slug":"the-forgotten-phone-proved-marlene-was-still-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/?p=6408","title":{"rendered":"The Forgotten Phone Proved Marlene Was Still Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sheriff Turner stopped me before I reached the door. He moved Gideon and me into the back room, then met Dorian outside with another deputy. Dorian immediately asked for his phone. When Turner mentioned the message about Marlene \u201ctrying to get out,\u201d his expression changed. Because the messages suggested someone was being confined and might be in immediate danger, officers preserved the phone and began checking the locations, photographs, and addresses connected to the conversation rather than letting me confront him.<br \/>\n<span class=\"ellipsis\" id=\"ellipsis-1632649384\">...<\/span><span class=\"rmwp-button-wrap\" id=\"rmwp-button-wrap-1632649384\" style=\"display: none;\"><button name=\"read more\" type=\"button\" onclick=\"rmwpButtonAction( '1632649384', 'READ MORE', 'READ LESS' )\">READ MORE<\/button><\/span><div class=\"rmwp-toggle \" id=\"rmwp-toggle-1632649384\" style=\"display: none\"><br \/>\nThe trail led to Rosalind\u2019s property forty minutes away. Deputies found Marlene alive in a converted basement room behind a locked interior door. She was weak, frightened, and needed medical treatment, but she recognized me when investigators brought me to the hospital later that night. I held her hand and cried harder than I had at the funeral five years earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation that followed uncovered the rest. Marlene had discovered that Dorian had been moving money from an inheritance account shortly before she supposedly \u201cdied.\u201d Records surrounding the identification of the remains buried under her name were reopened, along with every document Dorian and Rosalind had submitted afterward.<\/p>\n<p>Marlene eventually whispered, \u201cMom, I kept thinking you\u2019d find me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I looked at the forgotten phone inside an evidence bag.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, one careless message finally did.    <\/div><div class='rmwp-toggle-end'><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheriff Turner stopped me before I reached the door. He moved Gideon and me into the back room, then met Dorian outside with another deputy. Dorian immediately asked for his phone. When Turner mentioned the message about Marlene \u201ctrying to get out,\u201d his expression changed. Because the messages suggested someone was being confined and might [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6409,"href":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6408\/revisions\/6409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}