The Missing Girls: A Shocking True Story Of Abduction And Murder (St. Martin's True Crime Library)

The Story

MISSING: Two young girls from the same neighborhood.Ashley Pond was only twelve years old when she vanished from a school bus stop in a town south of Portland, Oregon. As a shocked community came together and police began a frantic search, another tragedy was just about to take place. No one believed that evil could be so close to home…Miranda Gaddis was Ashley’s best friend. Just two months after Ashley’s disappearance, Miranda was on her way to school when she, too, was abducted. Nobody knew the scandalous, unspeakable secret that the two girls shared…except for one man who lived just one block away. Until a heroic grandmother brought a killer to justice.The police and FBI managed to overlook the girls’ neighbor whose daughter was a friend of Miranda and Ashley’s—and who had a catalog of sexual-assault allegations behind him. Author Linda O’Neal was a private investigator intimately involved in this shocking case. Now, she and her co-authors—also participants in the case—tell the chilling story of one town’s devastating loss…and how the murderer was finally found. “O’Neal persevered when less-committed investigators reasonably may have given up…[The Missing Girls] is made greatly more urgent by the main investigator’s familial ties.”—Booklist  WITH 8 PAGES OF RIVETING PHOTOS