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The Shed, the Note, and the Van: How He Survived Twice

The Shed, the Note, and the Van: How He Survived Twice

Fear tightens: a padlocked shed, a two-inch square of paper taped with yellow electrical tape, and four words written in dried blood - all left by a man bound at wrists and ankles who still managed to leave the clues that solved two cases. How did a water-treatment technician, abducted once six years earlier, survive again and leave the single detail that would send his captor to prison for forty-one years?

In this episode, we tell the story of what happened on May 9, 2019, and the events that linked it back to an unresolved 2013…

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