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The Porcelain Shoe: How a Runner Vanished for Nine Days
The Porcelain Shoe: How a Runner Vanished for Nine Days
The image is simple and uncanny: a single size 10.5 safety-orange trail runner, double-knotted and set upright on a welcome mat in the middle of the Nevada desert - and beside it, a man who had been missing for nine days and had no idea how long he'd been gone. How did a thirty-two-year-old civil engineer and experienced ultra runner disappear for nine days across thirty-one miles of empty high desert and then reappear with only a shoe as the first clue?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from race morning through the search and the…
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