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The Seven of Hearts: How a Card Exposed a Hidden Captor

The Seven of Hearts: How a Card Exposed a Hidden Captor

A single seven of hearts, face up on asphalt outside unit fourteen, led to a man found locked in the dark for roughly forty hours - and that card should not have existed at all. How did a routine habit and one misplaced playing card break open a carefully planned abduction?

In this episode, we lay out the timeline from Todd Cole leaving his bowling league to the discovery at Crestline Self-Storage, following the clues that tied a rented unit, surveillance notes, and a handwritten threat together - and ask how such preparation went…

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