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Six Digits on a Sneaker: How Marilyn Coded Her Rescue
Six Digits on a Sneaker: How Marilyn Coded Her Rescue
A discarded white canvas sneaker with six ballpoint digits on its sole became the only message a missing woman could send from a sealed root cellar. The single clue - three numbers, a hyphen, three numbers - led a septic driver to bag the shoe and set off a detective's race to find a woman who had been counting sounds in the dark for five days; how did that code point exactly to her location?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from Marilyn Griffin's routine Wednesday dinner with her grandmother to the moment her car was found and…
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