Sep 23, 2026 · 3 min · 4 segments
A Christmas tree farmer with dementia disappears. His wife never reports him missing. Can anyone find out why? *A Private Matter* is the third season of…
Jason MoonHost
A couple years ago, an elderly Christmas tree farmer in New Hampshire went missing.

The police ask her, why didn't you report your own husband missing? they were not ready for the answers.
He told me not to talk about it, which, obviously, now, legally, I have to.
And what's the other thing? Oh, time flies.
Like...
The whole thing is, like, just a bizarre mystery.
It's like all these questions that the town has, the community has, are just, like, unanswered.
Honey, let's take a walk up into the woods and get hit over the head with a shovel and buried.
My initial thought was she killed him because that was what I always thought would happen.
No
way, no
way.
They have no idea how much we loved each other.

A couple years ago, an elderly Christmas tree farmer in New Hampshire went missing.

The police ask her, why didn't you report your own husband missing? they were not ready for the answers.
He told me not to talk about it, which, obviously, now, legally, I have to.
And what's the other thing? Oh, time flies.
Like...
The whole thing is, like, just a bizarre mystery.
It's like all these questions that the town has, the community has, are just, like, unanswered.
Honey, let's take a walk up into the woods and get hit over the head with a shovel and buried.
My initial thought was she killed him because that was what I always thought would happen.
No
way, no
way.
They have no idea how much we loved each other.
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