A Missing Girl, Ransom Note and Daring Rescue: A Guide to the Kidnapping Case Everyone Was Watching
It began with an innocent adventure at a bucolic state park near the Adirondack Mountains of New York state.
It ended with the chaotic explosions of flash-bang grenades.
In between, a nation held its breath as an Amber Alert flashed for a 9-year-old girl who went missing Saturday evening while her family was at rugged Moreau Lake State Park, about 45 miles north of Albany.
Gone Missing
At about 6:15 p.m. Saturday, after riding her bike with friends, the girl wanted to do a “‘big girl’ bike ride” around a loop at the park alone, Gov. Kathy Hochul said, according to Newsweek.
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