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Ziploc on a Pole: How a Tiny Bag Broke a Kidnapper's Alibi

Ziploc on a Pole: How a Tiny Bag Broke a Kidnapper's Alibi

A single Ziploc bag, cable-tied forty feet up a utility pole with a mud-dauber sealing its zip and a folded note that said "He is watching the house," turned a twelve-day missing-persons mystery into a live abduction case - who could have climbed that pole quietly without a bucket truck and why was the bag left for days? What did the bent reading glasses, burned burner phone pings, and a cinder-block shed on Corbin Road actually reveal about the abductor's plan?

In this episode, we follow the sequence of discoveries from the morning…

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