mistertheplague
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I’m actually only a couple of months older than Adam, and I remember the case having a profound effect on parents at the time.Yes, that's the way I recall it from the book and from news accounts at the time. LOL, I'm old enough to recall when this happened. The police would have been in way over their heads with a case like this. IIRC, they became a little angry with John's wife at first when she kept showing up at their police station.
Even today, there are local LE agencies that refuse to ask for outside help when they need it, but most are now better prepared to deal with missing children. It's still sad to look back on the many cases of missing teens from the 1960's and '70s who were written off as runaways.
Regarding local LE, currently watching the Netflix documentary on the Texas Killing Fields. Incredible how many bodies of young girls were dumped along a stretch of I-45 from Houston to Galveston from the early 70s to the 90s while the cops did nothing and gaslit families.