The Mysterious Disappearance of Fletcher Wagner

Name: The Mysterious Disappearance of Fletcher Wagner
Start: 2025-11-09T14:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-11-09T15:30:00-05:00
Location: Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library Central Library

Schedule

Sun Nov 09 2025 at 02:00 pm to 03:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library Central Library | Indianapolis, IN

Fletcher Wagner was a promising young man with a brilliant future. By the time he turned 22, he’d launched the first daily high school newspaper in the country, won numerous awards in speech and debate, written a play that predicted the San Francisco earthquake, graduated from Stanford in three years, and was nearly through his studies at Harvard law school.
There seemed to be no doubt in anyone’s mind – including Fletcher’s — that one day he would carry on the legacy of public service left by his great-grandfather Calvin Fletcher. That is, until the day that Fletcher Wagner mysteriously disappeared.
Had I lived 100 years later, Fletcher Wagner would've been my neighbor. I started trying to figure out what happened to Fletcher in 2012 after I found an old Valentine addressed to him on eBay. Since then, I've been following breadcrumbs leading to Europe, China, South America, Australia and a 50-gallon drum in the basement of an old farmhouse in rural Wayne County. Click this link for more info and to register for this free event. https://attend.indypl.org/event/14814221