The index card slipped through the casement window bought twelve days of air

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The index card slipped through the casement window bought twelve days of air

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A woman held in a rented basement uses a gas-meter-side casement window and an index card to try to call for help - did it buy her time?

The index card slipped through the casement window bought twelve days of air

In this episode, we hear the sequence of events after Sarah Duncan vanished: how a gas-meter reading led Cynthia Fleming to an index card with four red words, and how that small message set detectives on the trail of a twelve-day captivity. The episode follows the routines, the surveillance notes, and the forensic clues that raised the question: who had been watching, and what did the card mean?

Person: Sarah Duncan
Date: September 5-17, 2019
Location: 4 Grover Mill Road
Person: Cynthia Fleming
Person: Warren Wells

- Cynthia Fleming found an index card with four words in red marker on a gas meter reading card at 4 Grover Mill Road.
- The card read: BASEMENT. WELLS. CALL POLICE. S.D., left folded and creased by wind near the meter.
- Sarah Duncan, vice principal, disappeared after leaving for her weekly Thursday bowling league and returning early with a migraine.
- Warren Wells, a licensed home inspector, had a margin note from 14 months earlier: “Thurs, bowling - out seven to nine.”
- Detectives found a sealed basement room with a casement window facing the gas meter, red marker smears on the sill, and a door locked from the outside.

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