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She Survived Five Days in a Barn - The Purple Backpack Clue
She Survived Five Days in a Barn - The Purple Backpack Clue
A small purple backpack hung from a wire over a creek five days after a cashier disappeared from a parked car with keys in the ignition and her purse still on the seat. Inside were a ballpoint pen hidden in a sock and a receipt for a bag of crackers - clues that helped a 22-year-old survive five days in a barn; how did those ordinary items become the difference between life and death?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the moment Sharon Hoffman closed her register at 6:15 PM on December 4, 2014, through the…
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