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She Pushed a Child's Shoe Through a Vent: The Kidnapping of Erin Henderson

She Pushed a Child's Shoe Through a Vent: The Kidnapping of Erin Henderson

A single pink-and-white size three sneaker, laces tied, pressed against a crawl-space vent stopped a meter reader in her tracks and set in motion an investigation that would reveal months of planning and a hidden captive. How did a man who knew the house’s exact layout use a broken vent screw and a master key to hold a woman under her own floor for eight days?

In this episode, we tell what happened from the morning the shoe was found to the facts that pointed detectives to a familiar visitor and a mapped routine…

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