The Tiny Pencil That Saved Two Women: Inside Unit Three

Missing person stories · Sep 17, 2026 · 18m

The Tiny Pencil That Saved Two Women: Inside Unit Three

Fear tightened the moment a playing-card-sized note appeared on a cinder-block wall at 9:45 AM on August 14th: seven words and a number pressed into cardboard with a short pencil, threaded through a two-inch gap in an access panel. How did a stub of a ceramics pencil become the only lifeline between two women trapped inside a sealed unit-and who else did it expose?

In this episode, we tell what happened from the first sighting of the note to officers entering Unit Three at 10:17 AM, tracing the timeline of missing-person reports, the…