At 13, Alicia Kozakiewicz snuck out of her house to meet a “friend” she’d met online. He wasn’t a friend. He abducted her, chained her in a basement, and tortured her.
Alicia’s family, neighbors, and the FBI turned the world upside down to find her, and within days, she was pulled out of that basement alive.
Anaiah Walker’s story began the same way. She snuck out, too. The difference is that no one tore the world apart for her because Anaiah went missing from a foster home for abused children. What passed for a search was a name in a database and a few flyers. Some time later, Anaiah was found dead on the median of Interstate 10.
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