The FBI agent watched her across the store. He was seasoned enough to know what that little girl was trying to do.
He watched her steal a notebook and make a run for the door. Not today. The agent grabbed her arm and stopped her. She was under arrest.
“I’m an FBI agent and you just committed a crime little girl. I need to take you to my boss.”
This is how Sally Horner was kidnapped, held hostage, and tortured for 2 years.
Book Rec: “The Real Lolita” - by Sara Weinman (without her this case would have been forgotten).
Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com
Source notes:
Book: “Lolita” - by Vladimir Nabokov
Book: “The Real Lolita” - by Sara Weinman
https://web.archive.org/web/20180917143121/https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-salacious-non-mystery-of-the-real-lolita
https://web.archive.org/web/20180906154740/https://www.thecut.com/2018/09/excerpt-the-real-lolita-by-sarah-weinman.html
http://thenabokovian.org/node/22876
https://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/dolilol.htm
http://www.dvrbs.com/people/CamdenPeople-Florence-Sally-Horner.htm
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/sunday/the-sunday-edition-september-9-2018-1.4806985/the-forgotten-real-life-story-behind-lolita-1.4807124
https://www.npr.org/2018/09/11/646656280/the-real-lolita-investigates-the-true-crime-story-of-sally-horner
https://oakcliff.advocatemag.com/2019/06/the-real-lolita-kidnapping-victim-sally-horner-was-held-in-a-west-dallas-trailer-park/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Sally_Horner
DISCLAIMER: Some links are listed in the source material but the material may never be discussed in the podcast (I just wanted to list them because they gave me a deeper picture of the case in full). If there are un-verifiable sources (ie Reddit) - they are typically referred to as un-verified sources, opinions, and or theories in the podcast and not treated as fact.