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She Left a Paint-Can Label: How Janet Wriggled Out of a Windowless Room
She Left a Paint-Can Label: How Janet Wriggled Out of a Windowless Room
A single paint-can label folded into a rubber seal saved a woman whose breath would have vanished in seven-degree cold; the label spent three weeks in her pocket and required two trips through a ventilation shaft to reach the front step. How did a twenty-eight-year-old missing for twenty-seven days use a scrap of paper and perfect timing to tell the world she was alive-and who built the room with no window she escaped?
In this episode, we tell the story of the disappearance and survival of Janet Whitley, the timeline from…
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