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He Left a Dry Notebook: How Edward Cooper Escaped a Basement Captor
He Left a Dry Notebook: How Edward Cooper Escaped a Basement Captor
A dry pocket spiral notebook was left on a frost-covered church lot with six block-capital words: "EDWARD COOPER - ALIVE - BASEMENT - RALPH JOHNSON - DROVER LAKE ROAD - CALL LORI." A sixty-two-year-old retired land surveyor had been missing for three days, and that single note led officers to find him alive behind a padlocked hatch-so how did he get that message into a donation dropbox a quarter mile away?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from Edward Cooper’s routine disappearance after leaving for chess club to the…
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