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She Wrote Nine Lines: How a Map Broke Her Captor's Silence

She Wrote Nine Lines: How a Map Broke Her Captor's Silence

Barefoot, inside-out jeans, a flannel shirt with a gas station road map pressed with nine lines of handwriting - Holly Reed handed that map to a grader operator at 8:10 a.m, on October 14, 2009, after five days missing. How did a methodical librarian end up in a stranger's cab with a near-dead pen that left indented letters, and what cold thread links her abduction to a woman last seen near Slidell in 2006?

In this episode, we follow the facts of Holly Reed’s disappearance, the library technician whose access left an unexplained…

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