The Girl Who Was Taken

The Girl Who Was Taken

Author: Charlie Donlea Listening Length: 10h 24m

Two abducted girls—one who returns, one who doesnt. The night they go missing, high school seniors Nicole Cutty and Megan McDonald are at a beach party in their small town of Emerson Bay, North Carolina. Police launch a massive search, but hope is almost lostuntil Megan escapes from a bunker deep in the woodsA year la...

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I n the following days, with help from the anthropology department, Livia discovered her non-jumper was approximately twenty-five years old.

The body had not been vital for at least a year, and it had likely been in the water for only three days before the fishermen jigged it off the bottom.

Police dredged the flats of Emerson Bay, a long sandbar popular to striped bass and sheepshead fisherman for the sudden depth change, and found near the site where Livia’s John Doe had been discovered a green tarp that had been tied by rope to four cinder blocks.

Fibers from the rope matched evidence samples Livia had collected from the man’s clothing.