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He Wrote a Note, Then Escaped: 40 Minutes to Freedom

He Wrote a Note, Then Escaped: 40 Minutes to Freedom

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He Wrote a Note, Then Escaped: 40 Minutes to Freedom

Fear tightens the throat: a bound man, a pencil ferrule, and a forty-minute window that turned into escape. A county surveyor found a folded four-line note in a woodpile that named exactly where Wade Collins was and who had taken him-so how did he get that message out in time, and what did those forty minutes cost him?

In this episode, we follow the timeline from Collins's disappearance on July ninth to the discovery of the note on July fourteenth, tracing the clues that connect a white utility van, a disposable coffee cup, and a contractor with a year-long pattern of surveillance. How did a routine morning walk end with a van that never returned, and what broke the plan that had been in motion for fourteen months?

Person: Wade Collins
Date: July 9
Location: rail-trail north of the grain mill, Pelham
Person: John Sharp
Evidence: disposable cup with Becker's Stop sleeve found three days into the investigation

- Collins left his home at 6:45 a.m. and passed the grain mill camera at 6:51 a.m, on July 9.
- A white utility van appeared on the same camera feed four minutes after Collins and did not appear on return footage.
- A disposable coffee cup carrying a Becker's Stop sleeve was found on the trail three days later; Becker's locations were over 90 miles north of Pelham.
- Cell tower data placed John Sharp's phone in Collins's neighborhood on at least four occasions in the fourteen months before the abduction.
- Collins had worked 22 years at the grain distribution company and was 56 years old at the time of his disappearance.

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