Billies Diner on Broadway in Soulard...kind of.
So. Kid gets abducted somewhere in the outskirts. They identify a white compact pick up truck with a camper shell. Then...four days go by and kirkwood police stumble across the truck while serving a warrant in an unrelated matter in a rather marginal apartment complex in Kirkwood. They confront the guy at his job at Imos. He confesses. They go to his apartment and find not just the abducted kid, alive and well but another kid who has been missing for four years...apparently alive and well. Lets leave the 4 day kid alone. He was lucky. They found him quick, it is a beautiful story. A great, beautiful story. But what about the other kid. He has a stepfather, accosted and disappear when he is 11. He has a stepfather. He is form...Richwoods. He is now 15 and apparently had a lot of freedom and never worked ouyt a way to contact his parents or get back home. For one reason or another, whether it is Stockholm syndrome or a bad step dad he did not want to go home. I do not really want to see what the papers make out of this. The local TV guys have already made it insufferable. I watched the TV news last night where they could not decide what is the biggest story...the killer ice storm (not) or the MILLION DOLLAR bail of the child abductor? What a country.
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This one made national news, even in our parochial backwater of northern LA. Had the FBI come in to my house and told my kids they could go home (presumably they are all Warren Buffets progeny), they'd have likely jumped in the truck. We respect authority and people with guns.
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