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Paper Plate Map: The Clocked Route That Found Randy Alive

Paper Plate Map: The Clocked Route That Found Randy Alive

A folded paper plate tucked under a pickup's wiper led detectives to a pattern of repeated times and a pressed message: RANDY FOSTER. ALIVE. PLEASE. The map named specific stops and showed pairs of times-six-ten, six-ten, six-forty, eight-fifty-five, eight-fifty-five-that matched an industrial whistle; who inside a locked room knew which truck would carry that clue?

In this episode, we follow how a volunteer found the plate, how investigators processed the evidence, and how acoustic analysis connected the times to a nearby…

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