
How a Librarian Outsmarted Her Kidnapper - Trapped by a Generator
How a Librarian Outsmarted Her Kidnapper - Trapped by a GeneratorPower went out and a running generator led a lineman to a vacant house where a woman had been held; a Craftsman 8,000-watt unit bought on a card linked to the suspect tied the abduction to inside knowledge of the grid. How did a fifty-two-year-old librarian use the sound of an engine to survive - and who used a planned outage to abduct her?In this episode, we tell the story of Susan Hayes’s disappearance and survival, the months-long planning that preceded it, and the evidence that collapsed the case within an hour once…
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