Sunday, August 23, 2015

The man with the cabin

A few years ago I was working for a company doing some data entry. The girl that was training me was young,  early twenties I think. Her mom work there also, doing housecleaning in the the evenings. Just trying to start small talk I asked about her growing up in Mt Shasta. She proceeded to tell me the story of her mom. Her mom disappeared when Mandy was 16 years old. Leaving her and her younger brother alone. She recalled that told the police and filed missing persons reports. I had remembered seeing them at the time. She said the police couldn't find any evidence that she had been taken against her will, so they did not pursue it as a kidnapping. Mandy knew her mom wouldn't leave her alone. 3 years later her mom wanders out of the woods outside of McCloud. She claimed she had been held hostage there for three years. They took her to the hospital, even though she had no visible wounds on her. They took xrays and did blood work. The xrays were the only thing showing evidence of abuse. Multiple broken bones, in various stages of healing none of them properly set. Ribs, hands, arm, shin and ankle bones all had been broken some of them more than once. The police asked how she escaped and could she identify her attacker. She claimed she had hit him on the head with a shovel after he had slipped up and not locked up quickly enough. She tried to take them back to the cabin, but she couldn't locate it. She told the police who is he man was. When they went to interview him, he had an excuse for the wound on his head and friends to back up an alibi. He denied any knowledge of a cabin, and said he didn't know who the woman was. The police decided she was lying to get out of child abandonment charges, and refused to continue the investigation. This man still works and lives in the Mt Shasta area. Is there another woman locked up in his cabin right now being  tortured and beaten?

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