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The Wrong Target: How She Wrote a Trail From Inside Captivity
The Wrong Target: How She Wrote a Trail From Inside Captivity
A single dry sandwich bag wedged in a cottonwood root ball contained eleven words written on a gas station receipt - a calm, deliberate message left by a woman locked in a windowless storage room three miles away. How did Holly Hoffman, with one nearly-dry pen and a three-inch ventilation gap, place that bag exactly where a retired birdwatcher would find it, and why had the kidnapper targeted the wrong person?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the morning Curtis Foster found the bag to the clues Holly left from…
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