Ilsa Terrell
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The Hunt Begins
I was at my hair salon. Someone had canceled their appointment, and my daughter had called me and asked if I would stop at Wendy's and get her a chicken sandwich. I drove to her house, and while I was in her house, I had just given her the sandwich down, said hello to my grandchildren, and then my mother's husband called me and told me to get to the house, that my mom was crying.
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The Hunt Begins
for me and that she wanted me to get to the house as soon as possible. And I said, why is she crying? And he said, your mother's been raped. And I just ran out of my daughter's house.
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The Hunt Begins
I called my mom's husband again to ask him what happened because I had immediately gone into shock and I don't think I heard him right. And he said that my mother had been raped. I don't really remember driving to their house. It's quite a ways from there. And then when I pulled up to her driveway, there was sheriff trucks all over the place and crime tape around the house.
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The Hunt Begins
Only one person could go in with her, so I had to stand outside. I was wondering what was going on. We were looking for the car because he had stolen her car. We were calling people. As far as injuries, I hadn't known until I got into the hospital room later. And I didn't know fully of all of her injuries as she was embarrassed and in pain and in shock herself.
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Nightmare in Quincy
Quincy is kind of a river town where you know everyone and a small community and you feel pretty safe. You have felt safe here raising children and going to school. Everyone's like family.
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Nightmare in Quincy
It was around close to 5 p.m. and my mom was leaving work. She was traveling down Broadway to approximately 48th Street and went over to Cook's Lane.
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Nightmare in Quincy
Then she pulled over approximately down on the bottom roads by Cook's Lane and realized that she couldn't get her lights turned on.
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Nightmare in Quincy
She was just happy that someone had stopped because she was scared that she didn't want to go out on the next turn where there was heavier traffic. There was a male who pulled over and he went to go get a flashlight and was thinking he was coming back with a flashlight.
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Nightmare in Quincy
My mom's husband called me and told me that my mom was headed to the hospital, and I went ahead and got in my vehicle and started driving to Hannibal. I didn't know what was going on. I was standing at the hospital waiting, and then they took me to the family waiting room, and then handed me her jewelry and said that it will be some time.
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Nightmare in Quincy
My mom was excited that someone had pulled over, and she also, when they pulled over, they would go get a flashlight, and she pulled $20 out of her wallet to give them for stopping and helping her.
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Nightmare in Quincy
My name is Elsa Terrell, and I'm Tina Lohman's youngest daughter. My mom was 77, and she worked at American Builder Supply.
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Nightmare in Quincy
My grandfather was president of Bechtel Oil Company, and they traveled overseas. She was in London. She'd been everywhere. She went to college in London.
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Nightmare in Quincy
My grandmother was originally from here, as my grandfather was, and they came back for some family problems and an elderly great-grandmother, and she ended up meeting my father.
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Nightmare in Quincy
I was very close with my mom. I saw her every day. I was her youngest so I was spoiled rotten. She was always happy to take me to anything I had to do. She was just always there for me. My mom was always laughing, always happy. She liked going out for dinner and drinking red wine. She loved shopping. She loved Christmas and loved buying all of her grandchildren and children Christmas gifts.