"I know another lady whose child was kidnapped at Disney. He was around 5 yo as I recall and was actually tethered to the mom with one of those springy child leashes. She looks down and the leash was cut and the kid was gone.
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The security guy said for her to look at all children's shoes as they are leaving the park. Sure enough she spots her kid's shoes and the kidnapper had already changed the kid's clothes and DIED his hair! She was one of the lucky ones. "
This happened to that person's child? Really? Because what you've just described is a fairly well-known urban legend. (Although the last time that I heard it, it was at Wal-Mart, not Disney, but the mom still identified him by the shoes.) It showed up in "The Vanishing Hitchhiker" and there was a Law and Order episode with that plot as well. I think that if you talk to that person again, you'll find that it didn't really happen to them, but to "someone they know."
This happened to that person's child? Really? Because what you've just described is a fairly well-known urban legend. (Although the last time that I heard it, it was at Wal-Mart, not Disney, but the mom still identified him by the shoes.) It showed up in "The Vanishing Hitchhiker" and there was a Law and Order episode with that plot as well. I think that if you talk to that person again, you'll find that it didn't really happen to them, but to "someone they know."
Why look at the shoes? Why not just look for the kid with dead hair?
SD
I will definately check that out!