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The Shoe on the Marker: How a Note Saved Diane Thompson
The Shoe on the Marker: How a Note Saved Diane Thompson
A child's pink-and-white shoe, size four and left-footed, turned up on a concrete marker with a ten-digit phone number pressed into its sole - and that single clue launched a search that led to a woman trapped for seven days. The shoe’s mud didn’t match the field it sat in, the nursing home’s side door had been left unlocked for months, and Diane Thompson’s first words after rescue were, “Did anyone find the shoe?” What exactly connected a tied lace, a blue ballpoint phone number, and a trapdoor?
In this episode, we walk through the…
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