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He Wrote a Note, Then Escaped: 40 Minutes to Freedom

He Wrote a Note, Then Escaped: 40 Minutes to Freedom

Fear tightens the throat: a bound man, a pencil ferrule, and a forty-minute window that turned into escape. A county surveyor found a folded four-line note in a woodpile that named exactly where Wade Collins was and who had taken him-so how did he get that message out in time, and what did those forty minutes cost him?

In this episode, we follow the timeline from Collins's disappearance on July ninth to the discovery of the note on July fourteenth, tracing the clues that connect a white utility van, a disposable coffee cup, and a contractor…

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