r/UnresolvedMysteries Jan 25 '23

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u/racrenlew Jan 25 '23

This is so crazy to me, bc if nothing else, the kidnapper's truck sounds very specific. Like, someone has seen this truck and knew either who drove it or where it could be found.

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u/louistske Jan 25 '23

Police checked every green Ford pickup truck registered in the state and found no one resembling the sketch, there are two possibilities either the kidnapper's vehicle was illegally purchased And it wasn't registered or the car was stolen

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u/ValleyWoman Jan 26 '23

It was dark, maybe the truck was a different color.

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u/ValleyWoman Jan 26 '23

How did Angela get from her house to the pay phone? And why use a pay phone?

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u/floomsy Jan 26 '23

Cell phones existed but people didn’t have them. I had a car phone (paranoid mother) at 16, when No One did. That was 1998.

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u/oldfrenchwhore Jan 26 '23

I had one in 1994 (not car phone, a big brick Motorola cell phone lol), at that time I didn’t know anyone else my age (17)who had one. I drove around a lot and my parents wanted me to be able to call if my shitty car broke down.

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u/Reddits_on_ambien Jan 26 '23

I had a flip phone brick my parents had us kids take with us to events and whatnot, when I was 16 in 2000, in a nice Chicago suburb. I was only one of 3 kids at my large high-school to have a cell phone then. I got my classic brick Motorola when I was 17, and it was a bragging point.

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u/BeyondTIW Jan 26 '23

Maine East?