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Foam-Packed Glove on Marten Lake: How He Walked Back From Death
Foam-Packed Glove on Marten Lake: How He Walked Back From Death
Cold turns precise choices into life-or-death math: a man walked out of subzero water after falling through ice, his glove later found floating thirty feet from shore stuffed with hardened construction foam. What made a careful, experienced rancher pull a can of expanding foam from a saddlebag and use it on a glove while his body was counting down toward hypothermia?
In this episode, we tell what happened on Marten Lake the morning Dennis Becker fell through the ice and how investigators and Becker himself reconstructed the hour…
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