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The Tollbooth Note: How a Single Boot Saved a Kidnap Victim

The Tollbooth Note: How a Single Boot Saved a Kidnap Victim

A quiet town, a missing man, and a single boot left upright at the tree line - inside that boot, a folded toll receipt and nine words scrawled through the paper that led investigators across a state line. The gray Ford seen and then vanished on gas station camera, a pen matched to a rented F-150, and a receipt time-stamped 11:47 p.m. on Interstate 78 point to a desperate, improvised escape - but how did Norman get that note out while abducted?

In this episode, we follow the timeline of Norman Becker’s disappearance, the discovery of…

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