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She Left a Shoe Standing - How Brenda Signaled for Rescue
She Left a Shoe Standing - How Brenda Signaled for Rescue
A lone shoe standing upright on a rural road became the only deliberate signal that saved a woman bound, gagged and hiding in a collapsed drainage culvert; how did Brenda Petersen, with her hands tied and a forearm-width gap to work with, place that shoe so it would be seen? The image of a tan leather clog, heel down and toe pointing north, turned a routine morning run into a rescue and exposed a disappearance that began with a single four-minute prepaid phone call.
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from Brenda’s last…
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