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She Mapped Her Prison From Sound: The Heather Watson Case

She Mapped Her Prison From Sound: The Heather Watson Case

A forty-four-year-old choir member built a map of her own captivity in the dark using only sounds - a freight train, a factory whistle, a church bell - and pushed that map through a ventilation slot on the fifth day. How did Heather Watson translate sound into location so precisely that her cardboard note placed her within three blocks of where she actually was?

In this episode, we tell how a routine Tuesday night disappeared into a five-day ordeal, what investigators found in the church parking lot and the industrial building, and how…

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