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He Built His Escape: Nine Days Tapping From Inside a Grain Silo
He Built His Escape: Nine Days Tapping From Inside a Grain Silo
A man trapped inside an abandoned grain building used fourteen inches of half-inch copper pipe and orange surveyor's tape to send a rhythmic tap for help that lasted nine days - and when a volunteer finally heard it, a folded, torn note was found wedged in the wall. How did a twenty-eight-year-old parts clerk with no enemies manage to engineer a signal that would reveal both his presence and a connection to a previous case?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from a debit card purchase at 5:06 PM to the discovery on Sutter…
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