Posted on 01/12/2007 2:39:17 PM PST by cgk
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There was a young woman kidnapped back in the 70s and kept in wooden box beneath the perps bed. The perp told her that he had a hit man contract and would kill her and family if she ever spilled the beans.
Is the birth father deceased
As much as we here at FR tend to make fun of the "It Takes a Village" Hillary thing, on one hand, the concept, in its basic form, is correct. I grew up in a small town where a lot of people watched out for each other, esp. kids. My mother once pulled another drowning kid out of the local public swimming pool - she got to him a lot sooner than the lifeguard could have done so (it was a big ol' pool built by the WPA in the 1930's).
We need MORE of that kind of behavior in this day and age, not LESS. Who knows? If the Kirkwood neighbors would have asked just a few more nosy questions about the Devlin/Hornbeck "relationship", to them... this case might have been solved a lot sooner. Same goes for Devlin's own relatives. He apparently has a lot of brothers and sisters. Where have they been all this time? Have they even visited his apt.?
See what I mean?
We don't know that yet. But the step-father is a REAL KEEPER!
So when Mitchell observed this strange car in his "no through street" neighborhood, he apparently got in his own vehicle and followed it long enough to get a decent description of it, including some details about the rust marks, the hitch, etc. Then he had the presence of mind to report it right away and be calm/brave enough to put up with a lie detector test in the process.
I read that he died in 1999.
I am flabberghasted. How amazing.
Most locals know our street is a dead-end, even though it's not marked that way near the main north-south street that it intersects.
I do indeed know my neighbors cars by sight. And I pay attention to other non-neighbor cars and service vehicles that come down my street.... esp. the ones who creep down the street as if they don't have a clue what they're doing, look like they're lost or....... are scoping out the houses for potential future burglaries (ahem, cough, cough).
In fact, one night, when my husband and I went on one of our rare "dates" together going into Chicago to see a college choir concert together, we got a cell phone call from our-then 15 yr. old daughter who said she'd called the police because she'd seen a lot of cars driving around the grassy yard of the vacant, boarded up house across the street. I told her she did EXACTLY the right thing. I went to talk to the cops who were there when we got home 15 minutes later. Turns out that they were busting a teenage drinking party in progress. Would the cops have found out about this party unless my daughter had been observant? Probably not....since our house is only one of two houses that have line of sight to this lot (and I think our neighbors were out of their home for the evening as well).
I never want to hear another complaint about the Amber Alerts!
OF, I never have understood people who do complain about them... seems to me a lot of kids have been saved over the last few years thanks to those alerts.
See my post 949 above.
Sorry.... I meant 948 above.
People, like the poster are drawing different conclusions. I find it confusing.
Amber Alerts saved the lives of the two girls kidnapped years ago and brought into the desert. Just can't remember the details.
The flashing sign on the highway is a reminder that a life is in danger.
Heaven only knows that a bunch of drunken kids could have gotten into. Aside from alcohol poisoning, breaking into other homes.
AWESOME!!! Thank you so much for the info!!
I see the same thing all too often here in our town and even though we only have a population of 50,000 parents need to be more cognizant of the dangers facing kids on a daily basis; predators are everywhere.
This year alone we've had our TV sound interupted for Amber Alerts at least four or five times... in each case the child was found unharmed.
I didn't take what he said that way, but your interpretation could be right. I thought he was saying that people in general may get caught up in a "comfort zone" in their own area, and kind of think, "Well, nothing could happen around here. I live in a nice town/neighborhood." People forget to look because they get busy and become complacent. However, we all do need to better "brother's keepers" these days. It shouldn't be an outdated frame of mind.
That press conference made my heart swell!!
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