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So, Sally and Frank set off for Atlantic City as Frank had said, and that was the beginning of Sally’s 21 grueling months of being kidnapped, violated, and molested by Frank.
In the beginning, Sally called her mom and sent letters, but when that stopped, Sally’s mom Ella had a bad feeling. She reached out to the police to report Sally as missing.
Frank moved Sally on to Baltimore, then Dallas. The entire time, he manipulated Sally into doing everything he wanted and threatened to get her in trouble for shoplifting if she didn’t go along with it all.
Frank told everyone they met along the way that Sally was his daughter, and Sally kept her mouth shut about what was really going on because she was scared of being arrested or sent to reform school over the notebook, as Frank had warned her.
While they were living in Dallas, a neighbor of theirs named Ruth Janisch thought there wasn’t something quite right about Sally and Frank.
Although she and her husband moved to San Jose, California, she couldn’t get them out of her head. She ended up writing Frank a letter and telling him he should think about moving out there with Sally since there were a lot of jobs for him out west.
Frank read Ruth’s letter and in the beginning months of 1950, they made the move. But before they did, Sally had revealed to one of the girls she went to school with that Frank wasn’t her dad…and he was doing despicable things to her.
The girl that now 12-year-old Sally had told recognized the relationship was wrong and maintained that Sally should not be part of that anymore.
When Sally and Frank moved to San Jose, Sally spoke up again. This time, to Ruth. Ruth had Sally call her family back home, and then she alerted the police.
