The Shoe in the Mud: How a Single Sneaker Saved April Doyle
The Shoe in the Mud: How a Single Sneaker Saved April Doyle
A gray women's sneaker, size eight, stood upright in the mud under a pedestrian bridge on July 9, 2016 - sole down, toe pointing north, with masking tape showing a name and a seven-character code. That single shoe, photographed by a morning runner, triggered a search that found April Doyle alive; but how did a sneaker and a second hidden shoe point rescuers to her exact address?
In this episode, we tell how a routine bridge check, a crow's missing anticipation, and a cell phone ping combined into a coordinated search that led…
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