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Tied to a Lawnmower: How He Scratched a Van's Secret into Vinyl
Tied to a Lawnmower: How He Scratched a Van's Secret into Vinyl
He woke at 2:40 a.m. with raw wrists, bleeding fingernails, and four characters scratched into a vinyl seat cushion - but no blood on the floor and no sign of struggle. The rope on the lawnmower had one end worked free and the other cut cleanly; what did those two contradictory ends mean for the night he survived?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from a truck breakdown on Route Nine-Connector to a white van offering help, to a man named Roger Riley regaining consciousness in a dark garage tied to a riding mower…
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