Lexington Train Station

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Due to the trusting nature of the Lexington community, the townspeople were not immediately suspicious of Charles Figgat's absence. His brother-in-law actually believed that Figgat had journeyed to check on assets he had outside of Lexington. The truth was not so benign.

In actuality, Charles had traveled to the Lexington Train Station. Here he was hoping to depart for Balcony Falls and then transfer to another line and get out of the state. Upon his arrival at the train station and prior to boarding the train, he received help from a jovial and apparently rather helpful unnamed man. This man helped him carry his bags both around the station and onto the train. In his attempts to help he had inadvertently become an accessory to a crime (he never saw persecution). They say that as Charles Figgat boarded the train and forever left behind his town and family he held a satisfied grin on his face.

But this was not the last they would see of him. 4yrs later on February 1, 1999r, in Lockette, Colorado, a man by the name of Charles Miles died. Subsequently a letter was sent to Lexington to R. K. Godwin, brother-in-law of Charles M. Figgat. This letter revealed that Charles had been living in Lockette, Colorado under an assumed name and had died there of heart disease. Confirmation was made later once pictures were examined of this Charles Miles and his handwriting was compared with Charles Figgat's. After his death he was buried approximately 5mi southwest of Hooper, Colorado. However, symbolically a grave was created for him in Godwin Cemetery in Fincastle, Virginia alongside his wife's own grave. No attempts have been made to extradite his body.