She Wrote a Phone Number on Her Shoe - How Janet Survived

True Kidnapping Stories · Aug 26, 2026 · 18m

She Wrote a Phone Number on Her Shoe - How Janet Survived

Fear and the faintest acts of ordinary memory collide in this episode: a phone number heard once during a billing call becomes the single thread that helps a woman survive six days of captivity, and a business voicemail cracks the case in under four hours. How did a routine invoice call, an uncapped permanent marker, and a forgotten access code line up to keep Janet Peterson alive?

In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the morning Carl Collins found a woman on the reservoir spillway to the cupboard in a shuttered bait…