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The Dry Note: How Dawn Survived Five Days Under Marlo's Shop

The Dry Note: How Dawn Survived Five Days Under Marlo's Shop

A dry, folded receipt survived a full night of rain to carry six urgent words: DAWN ERICKSON, uNDER MARLO'S. HELP ME NOW. How could a woman spend five days in a concrete basement beneath a hardware store while no one noticed she was missing?

In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the moment a runner found that dry note to what unfolded at Marlo's Hardware, laying out the evidence, the people involved, and the unanswered questions that propelled the investigation - how did the note get out and why was Dawn absent from…

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