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Locked Basement, Loose Valve: How Karen's Crossword Saved Two Women

Locked Basement, Loose Valve: How Karen's Crossword Saved Two Women

A single zip-lock bag pinned to a fence contained a torn crossword with eleven words that led rescuers into a locked basement - but it took six minutes from the 911 call to officers breaking in, and two women were involved whose disappearances had gone unreported. How did a loosened valve stem, a folded magazine page, and a volunteer who was helping searches all collide in a small Ohio town?

In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the evening Karen Green vanished to the discovery tied to a crossword clue, laying…

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