posted on February 8, 2004 10:07:34 PM new
Was watching Dateline tonight on NBC, and heard oneof the most breath-taking statements!
One of their stories was on a nut nicknamed "The Dungeon Master" who kidnapped teen girls and kept them as sexual slaves for several months, keeping them chained in a concrete dungeon he built underground. He'd have them writeletters to their family claiming they were off doing something & would be home soon, so the families wouldn't panic. When he was tired of them he'd blindfold them and drop them off somewhere. One of the girls went to the police and told them what had happened to her. She even gave the make & color of his car (Mercury Comet). But they didn't believe her and fluffed her off. Even the local news media, when she contacted them, refused to follow up on it.
On tonight's show, one of the policemen said that if only this girl had dome more to convince them, they'd have caught the guy before he victimized more women after her. He noted that she'd said the car was a 1974 tan or light orange Mercury Comet, and that is what they'd looked for & found nothing. But that the kidnapper's car was a 1975 tan Mercury Comet--a fact they discovered when a 16 year-old girl escaped from him and they picked him up.
A modicum of common sense, I would think, would have the police searching more than one year of that make & color of car when searching, given that a victim is likely to be just a tad upset and may not get the year right...
posted on February 8, 2004 10:47:47 PM new
It wasn't in Montgomery County Maryland. With that auto description the police here would have that car under surveillance in minutes. That story is unbelievable!
posted on February 9, 2004 05:03:15 AM new
I am wondering if there was a major model change from the year 74 to 75?? That has got to be one of the dumbest excuses offered by police not to follow up on something.
