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The Sock, The Sleeve and the Hidden SOS That Saved Him
The Sock, The Sleeve and the Hidden SOS That Saved Him
Fear and hope collided in a single sock: a white ankle sock with a blue stripe traveled forty feet through an eighteen-inch ventilation slot to land in a drainage channel and carry a hand-lettered SOS that saved a missing man. How did a folded coffee sleeve, a broken ballpoint clip and a wobbling table at a diner become the only lifeline Ralph Becker could send - and who had already tried to explain him away?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from Ralph Becker's last logged swipe at 5:37 PM to the moment a dog named Biscuit…
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