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She Dug Her Way Out: The Cistern Note That Saved Heather
She Dug Her Way Out: The Cistern Note That Saved Heather
A rolled-up sock in a drainage ditch hid a four-word note - Heather. Cistern. Four miles. - written in the dark with a gum-sized chip of graphite and launched through a four-inch gap after nine days underground; how did a woman with no phone or tools calculate that a hiker would find it on a trail opened only eleven days earlier? Who had been watching Heather long enough to know her routines?
In this episode, we tell the story of Heather Cooper’s disappearance and the sequence of discoveries that led to her survival, from badge logs and…
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