In 1968, two men kidnapped Kim Bird. They locked her in a homemade coffin, took this photo, and buried her in the woods. They then hung the photo on a local bulletin board and wrote on the back, “I am buried in the woods, you have no more than 5 days to find me.” For days, people saw the photo and thought it was just a joke. But then, one of Kim’s former colleagues saw it and immediately went to the police. The police didn’t know what to do, though, because they only had the photo and no idea where she was buried.
Kim’s classmate started looking at the photo closely and noticed something strange. Some letters in the photo were written in bold, and if you looked carefully, you could read a secret message. It said “Kim + Brad” (the classmate’s name). It was the same kind of message they used to leave on trees during vacations in high school as a sign of their love for each other.
Brad went to the police with this clue, and they searched the area. They found a fresh grave next to a tree, just like the one in the photo. Kim was saved, but if they had found her just a few hours later, she wouldn’t have survived.
For many years, neither Kim nor Brad could explain how she ended up buried there or how Brad saw the photo. The strange thing was, Brad had only been in town for work and hadn’t lived there for years…
