How a Leather Planner Threw a Man a Lifeline in Captivity
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How a Leather Planner Threw a Man a Lifeline in Captivity
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A single leather pocket planner, wedged four meters high in an oak and dry after three days of rain, led authorities to free a man held six days in a locked cabin-so how did that tiny object survive the elements and land where it could save a life? The planner was open to a hand-drawn map and found by a county surveyor at 6:40 a.m.; could a tossed notebook really be the one precise, desperate signal that changed everything?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the morning the planner was found to the moment Robert Hicks walked out alive, detailing the timeline, the people connected to Hicks, and the notebook’s path that raised the crucial question: who calculated that a planner thrown from a boarded window would end up dry and visible in that exact tree?
Person: Robert Hicks
Date: September 3 (last seen), September 9 (planner found)
Location: Wexford Street residence; Kellner Forest Road cabin; Tillman Line Road oak tree
Person: Steven Norris
Event: Planner found at 6:40 a.m. by Roger Taylor; sheriff called at 7:12 a.m.; Detective Williams on scene by 9:00 a.m.; Hicks freed six hours later
- Hicks was 44 years old and had lived on Wexford Street for 11 years.
- Hicks made his last outgoing call at 7:03 p.m. on Wednesday, September 3 and was gone by 7:20 p.m.
- Hicks’s truck was seen in the driveway and his back gate was unlatched when coworkers checked midday on September 4.
- The leather planner was wedged in a fork of a tree nearly 4 meters up and was dry despite three days of rain.
- Detective Melvin Williams read the map in the planner at 9:00 a.m., and six hours later Hicks walked out of a locked cabin after six days in captivity.
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