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She Left a Credit Card Clue - How Cynthia Escaped Her Captor
She Left a Credit Card Clue - How Cynthia Escaped Her Captor
A credit card pressed into birch bark two hundred yards past a footbridge became the single thread that unraveled a locked-room captivity; on the signature strip Cynthia wrote an address, her name, and seven words: "She is here and she is alive." How did a twenty-two-year-old trapped inside a padlocked smokehouse engineer her own rescue with a pen left by the person who had taken her?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the morning Cynthia missed a twenty-six-month volunteer routine to the moment investigators were…
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