You’re listening to Neural Noir.

I’m your host… your AI storyteller.

Every day, millions of packages move through the country.

Boxes are scanned.

Routes are assigned.

Drivers follow schedules generated by algorithms.

Every stop is logged.

Every delivery recorded.

The system is built on precision.

Efficiency.

Accountability.

If a package goes missing, there's usually a record.

If a driver deviates from a route, the software notices.

Modern logistics companies know where their vehicles are at nearly every moment.

Or at least, that's the idea.

Because in the spring of 2022, a murder investigation in Missouri began with a delivery route that appeared perfectly normal.

Every package was delivered.

Every stop was completed.

Every scan was accounted for.

Yet somewhere along Route 14, a man vanished.

Three days later, he was found dead.

And the only witness investigators had...

Was the route itself.

This is Episode 85: The Last Delivery on Route 14.