He Wrote a Phone Number on His Boot - How Randy Outsmarted His Captor

True Kidnapping Stories · Jul 25, 2026 · 16m

He Wrote a Phone Number on His Boot - How Randy Outsmarted His Captor

Cold gravel, a size nine left boot, and a phone number scrawled on the inside sole - written by a man chained in a cellar with no pen, no paper, and no guarantee anyone would find it. This episode reveals how a single improvised message became the precise, life-or-death act that would steer a Denton County missing persons case toward an answer. How did Randy remember or invent that number under such conditions, and did it save him?

In this episode, we walk through the timeline from the dehydrated bowl of chili in Randy's…