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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here and this is what I wonder... exactly HOW prevalent was kidnapping in the 70s and 80s?

I was born in the late 80s.

I mean, the girl in question's mom had here 3 kids taken by this guy but according to her, the police treated it as NBD!? She said she eventually found 2 at an orphanage and then just what? Chalked the other one up to gone forever? Could none of the other 2 kids tell police what happened??

And then one of Sharon's friends said she couldn't believe that Sharon's mom never tried to find her because she too was taken as a child and her mom hunted her like crazy for years. I mean... what?

Did the police just not care or take kidnappings seriously if the parents were on the lower class, lower income side of life? That's how it seems. [/quote]

The mom was married to the kidnapper which was the big problem. The police, rightly according to the law, told her that it's not illegal to take your kids somewhere without your spouse's permission. Kidnapping was a huge cultural fear during this time, but I think being taken by family members was just beginning to be recognized as something problematic. It's messed up that neither the mom nor the bio dad (although people don't seem as bothered by him) tried to find their child.[/quote]

It didn’t make a lot of sense to me. Why would a stepdad want to abduct only one of the stepkids? He never had any parental rights unless he adopted her. [b]I’m on Reddit and the hate for the mom is mind blowing.[/b][/quote]

The mom is a mess. She married a predator and got arrested and lost track of one of her kids when the predator took her. It’s not that kidnapping was more prevalent back then to the Pp who asked, but it was easier to get away with. People could truly disappear. No phone signals to ping , no camera footage everywhere, and police agencies didn’t communicate with one another even town to town. This is why Ted Bundy could be so successful. [/quote]

You could tell the producers didn't believe a word of the mom's story -- they basically had two people rebutting her directly after she was interviewed.[/quote]

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