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Found Under Fabric Softener: Eight Days Buried in a Storm Cellar

Found Under Fabric Softener: Eight Days Buried in a Storm CellarThe smell of fabric softener led a volunteer physical therapist to a padlocked storm cellar where four knocks answered from below - and he spent eight days underground with only a three-by-five index card and a pen. How did a county inspector's ignored report, a detour, and a cracked serpentine belt converge to bury a man alive in February 2017?In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from a diverted route and a stopped F-150 to the discovery of a modified cellar and the clues left inside, asking whether missed inspections…

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