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Left Shoe, Locked Door: The Number That Saved Edward Dalton

Left Shoe, Locked Door: The Number That Saved Edward Dalton

A single left sneaker sat upright in nineteen-degree cold with a ten-digit phone number written on its white rubber sole - and that number would become the only thread connecting a missing 22-year-old to a locked room where he had been held. What happened between the last text at 6:12 p.m. and the discovery of that shoe five days later - and why one shoe was found inside a locked utility building while the other waited on a roadside - is the question driving this episode.

In this episode, we follow the timeline from Edward Dalton’s…

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