She Wrote Her Rescue: The Ticket In a Storm Drain

True Kidnapping Stories · Jul 25, 2026 · 17m

She Wrote Her Rescue: The Ticket In a Storm Drain

A fifteen-year-old paper carrier found a driver's license wedged in a storm drain grate at 5:45 AM on May 14, 2019, with a name, a street, and a plea written on the back - a message that had been written in the dark and tossed where it could be found. How did a twenty-six-year-old captive engineer a rescue with nothing but a pen, a window, and memory?

In this episode, we follow the sequence of events from Gloria Ann Ann's detour at the Sunoco to the signal-jammed camera footage and the details she used to mark her location, asking whether her…