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She Left a Shoe: How a 61‑Year‑Old Outsmarted Her Captor

She Left a Shoe: How a 61‑Year‑Old Outsmarted Her Captor

Fear and cold calculation meet in a single pale blue canvas shoe left deliberately in the middle of a county road - laces tied, size seven, a folded note tucked under the tongue containing a partial license plate and a scar description. How did a sixty-one‑year‑old bookkeeper held in a dark basement manage to plan two escapes and leave the kind of precise evidence that forced a forensic examiner to stop and stare?

In this episode, we tell what happened the night of April 6, 2011, and the eight days that followed, following Megan Doyle’s…

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