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She Held the Name of Her Captor in Her Hand: The Rebecca Porter Case

She Held the Name of Her Captor in Her Hand: The Rebecca Porter Case

Fear and calculation met in a ditch eleven miles east of Venable when a contractor found a 62-year-old woman clutching a two-inch folded square of paper that would crack the case within 36 hours - but the nine digits on it were not in her handwriting. How did a retired library volunteer end up in a Crale Township basement with a laminated insurance card naming her captor, and who had been watching her routines for weeks?

In this episode, we follow the timeline from Rebecca Porter's disappearance after leaving the Venable…

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