They say the two incidents are not connected. I hope they are just saying that; I hope they are connected, b/c then the live (escaped) victim would give them some leads on Dru Sjodin's case. OTOH, if the same person as kidnapped Dru kidnapped the other girl, that doesn't bode well for Dru--where would he have left her while he went out to do another kidnapping? I don't know what to think. I only wish this girl could be found alive.
Here's another one ... what's going on!!!
http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/4240510.html Three men attempt to abduct girl in Hermantown
Associated Press
Published November 30, 2003 HERM01
Hermantown, Minn., police are looking for three men they say tried to pull a 17-year-old girl into a car and assault her.
Police say the teenager's car stalled a little before 5 p.m Friday. She began to walk to a house to use the phone.
As she was walking on Hwy. 194, a maroon four-door car stopped in front of her, backed up, and a man in a rear seat opened the door and pulled her in. He and another male in the back seat attempted to assault the girl.
Then a man in a white truck pulled up behind the car, and the driver of the truck got out and told the men to let the girl go. The men in the maroon car let the 17-year-old go and sped off.
Hermantown police are looking for three men in the maroon car, all described as in their 20's or 30's. They would also like to talk to the man in the truck, which police described as white with some rust on it.
Hermantown is in northeast Minnesota, in the area of Hibbing and Duluth.