Episode 7: The Barrel

More than a year removed from when we last heard from reporter Kaitlin Durbin about Alvin’s Darrow’s disappearance, the case gets some movement and some hope for the family.

We recap all we know about Alvin’s Darrow’s disappearance and where the trail runs cold. Police and family make their final pleas for information leading to Alvin’s body, because “somebody knows what happened to him." 

Michael Johnson shares his memory of the night he helped Tim Darrow dump a barrel in Michigan.

A mysterious tip reported from the Wood County jail led police on a hunt for a barrel dumped in a secluded field in southern Michigan. Could it be Alvin’s final resting place? 

How did the investigation unfold? Five search warrants provide clues about where police were searching for Alvin Darrow and who they were looking at. 

Tim Darrow is the last known person to see his father alive. We interview him for an hour about what he recalls about their fight over a stolen motorcycle and why Alvin’s blood may have ended up on the bike.  

Alvin Darrow had a turbulent past and had spent most of his adult life in and out of jail, but he’d seemed to have turned things around in the last five years. Why, then, did he have a stolen motorcycle? And what might his relationship with his sons tell us about his disappearance? 

We retrace Alvin Darrow’s steps on July 27, 2017, narrowing down the timeline until he vanishes. Where did he go, who was he with, and where did the blood come from?  

This story starts with an expensive motorcycle that was stolen two days prior to the victim going missing. What do we know about that burglary and the bike? What does it have to do with Alvin?  

Officially, Alvin Darrow is missing, but it’s presumed he’s dead, his body never recovered. A strange series of events followed his disappearance, including two 911 calls, a fake lead and immediate suspicions of a violent end. Hear the first clues about what happened to Alvin Darrow.