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Missing: The Oregon City Girls tells the inside story which captured national interest of two young girls who vanished and the private investigator, a step-grandmother to one, who unlocks the deadly secret that stalks a community.
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Real People. Incredible Stories.
Copyright © 2006 by Linda O’Neal, Philip F. Tennyson & Rick Watson
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Linda O’Neal, Philip F. Tennyson & Rick Watson
Missing: The Oregon City Girls
A Shocking True Story of Abduction and Murder
Cover Design: Wendy Bass
Interior Design: Eileen Turano
Library of Congress Control Number: 2005924252
ISBN-13 (eBook): 978-0-88282-529-8
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Dedication
This book is dedicated to Ashley Pond and Miranda Gaddis
whose lives and travails poignantly inspired its contents.
Ashley and Miranda, we will never forget your tragedies
which have galvanized our determination to prevent
evil child predators from tarnishing the innocent.
Table of Contents
Prologue
Chapter One
Missing Person
Chapter Two
Be On the Lookout
Chapter Three
Searching for Clues
Chapter Four
Runaway or Missing Person?
Chapter Five
Another Blow Strikes
Chapter Six
Two Girls Lost
Chapter Seven
Linda O’Neal Investigations
Chapter Eight
No Stone Unturned
Chapter Nine
The Search Continues
Chapter Ten
Final Billboard
Chapter Eleven
Friends and Foes
Chapter Twelve
Strange Insights
Chapter Thirteen
Barbecues and Revelations
Chapter Fourteen
Meeting the FBI
Chapter Fifteen
Flashing Lights and Getaways
Chapter Sixteen
Running
Chapter Seventeen
Raped
Chapter Eighteen
Dark Revelations
Chapter Nineteen
Finger-pointing
Chapter Twenty
Charges and Countercharges
Chapter Twenty-One
Remembering Ashley
Chapter Twenty-Two
Woe-stricken Days
Chapter Twenty-Three
Nefarious Plotting
Chapter Twenty-Four
Falling Dominoes
Chapter Twenty-Five
Remembering Miranda
Chapter Twenty-Six
Psycho?
Epilogue
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Endnotes
Authors’ Note
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