Little girl lost: Remembering Katie Worsky after 25 years
Polly Klaas. Samantha Runnion. Jessica Lunsford. Their names and faces are familiar– exhaustive national news coverage of their abduction and death has burned them into the national consciousness.
The contrast between photos of their shining eyes, wide grins, and dimpled cheeks and the incessantly replayed videos of their anguished parents begging futilely for their children's safe return has made the missing child– especially a missing girl– almost a symbol of society's dark side in the last decade. But before Amber Alerts and 24-hour cable news cycles etched the faces of the lost children and the plight of their parents in the national psyche, a little Charlottesville girl went on a sleep-over and never came home.
At a time when children rode their bikes alone and residents left their doors unlocked, the disappearance of Katie Worsky on July 12, 1982 rocked this sleepy college town and launched an investigation that seasoned law enforcement officers called "once in a lifetime" for its poignancy and complexity.
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