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"It's just amazing she was able to free herself and get out of this predicament," Stommel said. He declined to say how the girl got out, but he said she told deputies where they could find the man's home.
The girl told investigators she had been able to get out of Hescock's home while he went to work, Stommel said. Still wearing the purple pajamas and T-shirt she had last been seen in, she cried and hugged her family. The girl was returned home 15 minutes later.
He dropped to his knees and told his daughter he loved her. It was then that the girl's mother came out of the house screaming and handed a phone to her husband. When deputies arrived, they brought search dogs and the Bonneville County Search and Rescue team to scour the nearby fields and canals.Ībout 3 p.m., 30 friends and family members lined up from a fence post to the family shed to search the grass for clues. The family told deputies it was out of character for the girl to disappear, and they had called on a Madison County farmer to bring his helicopter to help search for her by air. The girl's family searched for the girl by calling all her friends and people who had seen her the night before, he said. A family member discovered the girl missing around 5:30 a.m., but her sister was still there and was unharmed. She had been sleeping outside the home on a trampoline with one of her sisters, who had been sound asleep, Sgt. when the rural Idaho Falls girl's family reported her missing from their Highway 26 home. The case began Wednesday morning around 10:30 a.m. Investigators planned to search Hescock's home Thursday for evidence that may link him to the disappearance of a woman who vanished in September 2001.īecause of the timing, Stommel does not believe Hescock is linked to the Wednesday abduction of a 14-year-old Utah girl, Elizabeth Smart. "It was my fear this would be a shootout."
"I knew he had firearms, lots of them," Stommel said. Investigators have not released information about how the chase ended and who fired the fatal bullets. Hescock and a police dog were dead, and a Bonneville County sheriff's deputy was shot in the leg. on a dirt road in the Big Hole Mountains. Hescock, 42, the chief suspect in the abduction of a 14-year-old girl Wednesday morning, led police on a 40-mile chase that began shortly after 4 p.m. He had dealt with Keith Glenn Hescock before. He called Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center and told them to have an emergency helicopter put on standby. IDAHO FALLS - Bonneville County Sheriff Byron Stommel knew when Wednesday's police chase began that it could turn deadly.
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