Lost Girls by Caitlin Rother

Author:Caitlin Rother
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Published: 2012-05-24T04:00:00+00:00

Jan Caldwell, the sheriff’s department spokeswoman, was just leaving choir practice at her church in Carmel Valley, when she got a call from Sergeant Parker around nine o’clock in the evening.

“We have a missing juvenile at the Rancho Bernardo Community Park,” he said. “Why don’t you head this way, because we’re getting quite a lot of media down here.”

When Caldwell arrived a half hour later, she saw a sea of people. There were only two news cameras, but the same crowd of teenagers and parents were still milling around near the tennis courts and the trailhead.

“This shouldn’t take too long because somebody reported hearing someone calling out ‘Help me, help me,’” a deputy told Caldwell as she was assessing the situation. Unfortunately, the reporting party was mistaken. The person was actually calling out “Chelsea, Chelsea,” hoping that the teenager would answer the call.

Caldwell’s heart went out to the Kings, noting the same expression on Kelly’s face that Parker had seen, the “look of a mother that’s missing part of her body.” Feeling protective, Caldwell was irate when she heard that a TV reporter followed Kelly into the park’s outdoor restroom and into a stall, asking her questions for the eleven o’clock news. In response, Caldwell corralled the media into the upper parking lot, which left them with no bathroom access, so this couldn’t happen again. Kelly was distraught enough without having a reporter intrude on such a private moment. “It was rude. It was disrespectful,” Caldwell said.

The more Caldwell heard about Chelsea in the coming days, the more she knew “what an amazing, amazing child that Chelsea was, and it became scarier to us as law enforcement that something sinister had happened.”

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