He Took the Wrong Runner: Why a Gravel Road Revealed Kidnapping

True Kidnapping Stories · Jul 25, 2026 · 19m

He Took the Wrong Runner: Why a Gravel Road Revealed Kidnapping

A single size-ten running shoe stood upright in the middle of Millrace Road at 6:40 AM on March 4th, and thirty feet away a 26-year-old man sat in the snow waving as if he had been waiting a very long time. How did a routine five-fifteen morning run turn into a disappearance that left no footprints, a stopped phone signal, and a solved crime that began with a mistake?

In this episode, we walk through the events from the empty gravel extension on Dellwood Avenue to the moment Scott Tillman was found on Millrace Road, following the…