Disappearance of Amanda Campbell
California
A four-year-old rode her bike a block from home in Fairfield and was never seen again, and the man police called their prime suspect later sued the city and won.
Two days after Christmas in 1991, a four-year-old named Amanda Campbell asked her father if she could go play at a friend's house. He said yes. He watched her cross Larchmont Drive from the living room window, then went back to what he was doing. She never got there. The friend, it turned out, was not even home. That night Amanda's grandmother found the bike abandoned in front of a gate, within blocks of the house. Searchers also picked up a child-sized blue sock nearby. Nobody knows if it was hers. The FBI joined within two days. Bloodhounds followed her scent along a trail near her home and lost it after about a mile. A motorist reported seeing a girl matching her description inside a Datsun sedan six miles away in East Fairfield, tied up and screaming. Police rushed to the spot. The car was gone and was never found.
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he had watched her cross Larchmont Drive through his living room window, before going back to what he had been doing
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