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Noticed by a Willow: The Notebook That Exposed a Kidnapper
Noticed by a Willow: The Notebook That Exposed a Kidnapper
Mud and a dry notebook in the fork of a willow led a county surveyor to dial 9-1-1 and opened a 14-day missing-person case that ended with a 22-year prison sentence. A handwritten license plate, a cellar location, and a compressed schedule were found on April 19, 2017-how did a notebook survive two inches of rain and reveal a kidnapper's pattern?
In this episode, we tell how a routine will-call order, a security camera, and a padlocked aluminum box in a farmhouse connected a missing 22-year-old to a man with a secret list-and why one…
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