Soap opera women reminded of old and wildly successful pretty-white-girl abduction story line
SANTA ANA, Calif. - The two friends were playing outside on a summer evening when a man pulled up, approached them with a story about a lost puppy and then whisked away 5-year-old Samantha Runnion.
It was the start of one of the most notorious crimes in recent Southern California history, an abduction and murder that prompted a massive outpouring of grief for a girl whose nude body was soon found in mountains 50 miles away.
``I must give him his due. He has considerably cretinized me.'' Lautréamont
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