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Boot in the Reeds: A Hidden Message That Saved a Life
Boot in the Reeds: A Hidden Message That Saved a Life
Fear and relief collide: a size-eleven leather work boot with laces tied was found wedged in cattails containing a sealed four-inch square of cardboard whose last two words read ROB WELLS ALIVE - how did that tiny message travel three-quarters of a mile through a rain-swollen ditch and reach a birdwatcher in time? What desperate sequence of choices put that boot, that cardboard, and that single sentence into the reeds when Robert Wells had been missing for seven days?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the last confirmed…
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