Chip Chick
She did end up changing the course of her life forever, but in a terrible way that she never could have imagined.
A group of girls that Sally went to school with insisted she had to do something in order for them to let her be part of their circle, and they had a suggestion for how she could do that.
Sally stepped inside of Woolworth’s, which was the biggest chain of department stores at the time, determined to steal a notebook like these girls wanted her to do.
She grabbed the notebook and turned to leave the store, but a 50-year-old man by the name of Frank La Salle caught up with her before she could make her exit.
He told Sally that he worked for the FBI, and she was in big trouble for stealing what she did. Frank explained that Sally could land herself in reform school or be arrested, but instead…he was going to cut her a special deal.
Instead of turning Sally in then and there, he was going to let Sally walk away if she checked in with him on occasion in the weeks that followed.
Of course, Sally was all too happy to agree to this. She had no way of knowing that what Frank was telling her was nothing but a lie. He wasn’t an FBI agent, he was a mechanic, and he had a long list of prior offenses for violating children.
Sally feared she would end up behind bars, but Frank himself had been released from prison only a few months before he came across her that day in Woolworth’s.
After they parted ways that day, Frank met up with Sally as she was on her way home from school and told her the FBI was ordering her to come with him to Atlantic City immediately.
Sally was to let her mom Ella know that she was heading off on a nice family vacation with Frank, who was the dad of one of her friends. Ella was more than happy to let her take the trip because it wasn’t something she would ever have the money to give her daughter.
