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He Wrote His Name on Brown Paper and Survived 80 Hours
He Wrote His Name on Brown Paper and Survived 80 Hours
A leather wallet surfaced on May 14, 2011 with a torn brown-paper note naming the captive, his captor, and the first three letters of a license plate - dropped through a four-inch gap and carried by the Cassidy River to a retired road-worker's trotline. How did a man zip-tied inside a grain storage building manage to send that precise message and survive roughly eighty hours of captivity?
In this episode, we tell how a missing-persons report led investigators from a roadside car with a textbook flare to a damp wallet, a GPS log, and a…
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