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Locked Below: How Tracy Mapped Her Captor and Escaped After Nine Days
Locked Below: How Tracy Mapped Her Captor and Escaped After Nine Days
A nine-day underground captivity, a generator that ran continuously even after the grid returned, and a 23-year-old who carved messages with a scorched lantern clip - Tracy Nelson mapped her captor’s schedule to within thirty seconds. How did routine, a bottle wrapper and a pulse become tools for survival, and what single mistake let her plan an escape?
In this episode, we tell what happened the morning a county surveyor heard a breath under a locked cellar door and then reconstruct the nine days Tracy spent beneath a…
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