The Day of the Kidnapping
In yet another of those tragic twists of fate that so often define cases like these, Jaycee didn’t even want to go to school on June 10 of 1991 as she’d woken up feeling queasy. She considered telling her stepfather how she was feeling but decided against it after worrying that it might just cause an argument.
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Instead, she set out to school on her own. In her book, Jaycee claims that Carl was partly the reason why she started walking to school alone and that her mother had never really liked the idea. However, her mother had to work early, and sometimes Carl wasn’t around, so little Jaycee got used to making the journey alone.
Jaycee, a lifelong animal lover, had several cats and had also befriended a neighborhood dog named Ninja who would sometimes accompany her on her walks to the nearby school bus stop. On that fateful morning, she hoped Ninja would be around to keep her company on the walk, but he was nowhere to be seen.