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She Left a Lunchbox - Four Words That Unmasked Her Captor

She Left a Lunchbox - Four Words That Unmasked Her Captor

A yellow lunch box frozen in mud at minus eleven Celsius held a folded note whose second line read just four words: WADE IS NOT HIS NAME. That single message named a false identity, pointed to a storage unit two blocks from the credit union, and left an open question: how did a routine life turn into a carefully timed abduction that Monica Powell planned to outsmart?

In this episode, we tell the story of the evidence left behind and the investigative steps that followed, from the greenway where a friend found the box to the business…

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