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He Said He Was Wade - She Left Her Name on Cardboard

He Said He Was Wade - She Left Her Name on Cardboard

A white sneaker stood upright on a loading dock with a strip of cardboard pressed into its toe: KELLY BAUER, PALLSER, HELP, WADE IS NOT HIS NAME - a clear message from a woman missing six days and proof her captor lied about who he was. Who created the precise fiction that let this man approach, watch, and abduct a twenty-four-year-old who lived an ordinary life in a town of routine and small rhythms?

In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from Kelly Bauer’s disappearance on January 3 to the discovery on January 9, following the…

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