Katie Poirier is the first case that came to mind when I read about Jessica. I have an old friend who grew up in Moose Lake and nobody in the area has ever forgotten her. The surveillance tape from the convenience store was absolutely chilling.
I hope Jessica's case has a happier ending than Katie's did. For anyone who may not remember, Katie was abducted and murdered by Donald Blom, a registered sex offender and suspected serial killer. He burned her remains in a fire pit on his rural vacation property, and all that was recovered were a few bone fragments and a single tooth, which was used to make the identification. Blom had a long history of crimes against women and antisocial behavior. At the time of Katie Poirier's murder, he had kidnapped seven other women and had 6 felony convictions, but light sentencing laws at the time meant that he got out of prison again and again.
I imagine that whomever abducted Jessica has a similar history. I don't think this is his first time, and I hope that improvements in the sex offender registry since 1999 mean that LE is aware of him. It is interesting that no sketch has been released - in the Poirier case, a sketch and the surveillance footage were ALL over the news in the days following the abduction. I hope that Jessica is being held alive and LE isn't releasing the sketch because they don't want to spook him.
Unfortunately, I have such a bad feeling about this one.
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