The Drawer in the Motel Room
Failed to add items
Add to basket failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from Wish List failed.
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
The Drawer in the Motel Room
-
Narrated by:
-
By:
About this listen
A traveling salesman checks into a rundown roadside motel and opens the nightstand drawer — expecting a Bible. Instead, he finds a bundle of handwritten letters, tied with twine. The first page reads:
“To the one I hurt.”
The letters, written by a man who signs only “J.”, are addressed to a woman named Anne. At first they sound like love letters. Then they shift:
“You said you were leaving. You reached for the phone. I stopped you. You fell.”
Police trace the room’s past guest records to James Whitaker, a quiet mechanic from Bakersfield — now deceased. They link the letters to Anne Keller, a woman who vanished in 1987 after ending a relationship.
No body. No trial. No answers.
Just a stack of unsent confessions left in a motel drawer — waiting decades for a stranger to open it.
A reminder that guilt doesn’t always seek forgiveness.
Sometimes, it just waits to be found.