She Wrote "BASEMENT": 53 Scratches, Nine Days, One Rescue
She Wrote "BASEMENT": 53 Scratches, Nine Days, One Rescue
A scrap of cardboard with six words - BASEMENT, FENWICK ST., SUPPLY BUSINESS, DAWN E., ALIVE - and fifty-three tally marks was pushed through a fence gap eight inches above ground; it was written in total darkness with a nail from a rotting baseboard and threaded through drywall and concrete. How did a note made by feel escape a basement the woman had not left for eight days, and who finally found it?
In this episode, we tell how a routine missing-persons report became a rescue after a morning walker found the folded card and called…
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