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She Wrote His Plate: The Mitten That Broke Her Captor

She Wrote His Plate: The Mitten That Broke Her Captor

Fear spikes when a small, deliberate act breaks a predator's secrecy: a dry wool mitten tucked inside a drainage pipe carried two words that named a man and a partial license plate, and that mitten turned a five-day disappearance into a solvable trail. How did Frances Larsen, twenty-four and held in the back of a Transit, fashion her own breadcrumb that would be found by a county surveyor days later - and what did those two words start?

In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from Frances's routine disappearance to the discovery…

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