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The Watch in the Dirt: How a Volunteer Hid a Captor
The Watch in the Dirt: How a Volunteer Hid a Captor
A cheap Casio watch, face-up in the dirt with a cracked crystal and an alarm set for 6:30 PM, sat six inches from a septic tank lip on Carmichael Road - placed, not dropped - and it broke a five-day blind stretch in a missing-persons case; who would oil a barn door and leave a watch as a deliberate clue? What did the partial palm print and the volunteer in an orange vest reveal about the man who vanished and the person who never expected to be found?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from the last confirmed sighting to the moment the…
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