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The Blue Cooler: How a Loose Screw Saved Two Women from a Volunteer Rescuer

The Blue Cooler: How a Loose Screw Saved Two Women from a Volunteer Rescuer

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The Blue Cooler: How a Loose Screw Saved Two Women from a Volunteer Rescuer

A single blue 50-quart cooler with "Sheriff's Search and Rescue" stenciled on it sat outside a pump house and led rescuers to two women alive after being held on a foreclosed hog farm; a loose screw, an eleven-second prepaid call, and a service technician who stopped her truck unraveled a man trusted with equipment. How did an eleven-second call and a bungee-corded cooler break open a scheme that hid two disappearances?

In this episode, we lay out the timeline from the eleven-second call at 6:47 AM to the discovery at 7:14 AM, following the evidence that connected a white pickup volunteer, a missing retired dental hygienist, and a woman held six weeks in a pump house. Which specific detail turned an otherwise routine search into a criminal case?

Person: Denise McCarthy
Date: August 4 (call at 6:47 AM; 9-1-1 at 7:14 AM)
Location: Foreclosed hog farm pump house on Aldrich Mill Road
Case: Two women found alive; volunteer rescuer later sentenced to 41 years
Item: Blue 50-quart Igloo cooler with bungee cord and "Sheriff's Search and Rescue" stencil

- Denise McCarthy called 9-1-1 at 7:14 AM and waited 22 minutes for a deputy after finding the cooler.
- An eleven-second call was placed to Gina Cox's cell at 6:47 AM from a prepaid phone bought in Lennox Township.
- Gina Cox left her house at approximately 6:50 AM on her usual two-mile walk and was taken at the service road crossing.
- Detective Larry Davis found Gina's silver hoop earring at the base of the concrete barrier at the crossing.
- Faye Drummond had been held in the pump house for six weeks after accepting help from a man in a white pickup.

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