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She Survived the Metal Port: How Lauren Left Her Last Clue

She Survived the Metal Port: How Lauren Left Her Last Clue

Cold, deliberate, and impossible: a driver's license was found pressed face-up into a metal inspection port after two nights at nearly five degrees below zero - intact and arranged so its photo would be visible. Who could survive that cold and why was the only trace left hidden in a septic hatch: did Lauren place it herself, or was it left for her?

In this episode, we follow the timeline from Lauren Callahan’s routine four-mile morning walk to the discovery that redirected the investigation, tracing the people, places, and small…

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