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The Shoe With a Phone Number: How Jean Outsmarted Her Captor
The Shoe With a Phone Number: How Jean Outsmarted Her Captor
A single canvas shoe with a handwritten phone number on its insole saved a sixty-two-year-old woman's life after six days in a windowless basement; how did Jean Ford know to trust that number enough to risk signaling with a shoe? What does the tiny, careful handwriting reveal about the survival instincts that kept her alive?
In this episode, we tell the story of Jean Ford’s abduction, the routine that led her to be taken, and the precise choices she made while captive that culminated in that shoe with a phone number - the act that…
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