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Florence Sally Horner

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The Resume

    (April 18, 1937-August 18, 1952)
    Born in Woodbine, New Jersey
    Kidnapped by serial predator Frank La Salle (June 1948)
    Reunited with her family after La Salle's arrest on March 22, 1950
    Inspired the Vladimir Nabokov novel 'Lolita'

Why she might be annoying:

    A book about her kidnapping calls her 'The Real Lolita.'
    She stole a five-cent notebook from a Woolworths in Camden.
    The shoplifting was on a dare in order to become part of a popular clique at her school.
    She was caught by Frank La Salle, who claimed to be an FBI agent and later tricked her into accompanying him on a twenty-one month trip across several states.
    She got her mother to allow her to go by telling her mother that she had been invited by a friend on a family vacation to the Jersey Shore and that La Salle was the friend's father (and she insanely questioned none of it and greenlit the trip).

Why she might not be annoying:

    Her father died when she was six years old.
    When she was caught by La Salle, he threatened to have her sent to a reform school unless she reported to him periodically (she tearfully agreed).
    La Salle then reappeared days later to claim that the rules had changed and she now had to accompany him to Atlantic City, on orders of the government.
    Roaming across the country, La Salle routinely claimed she was his daughter and even enrolled her in school at one point.
    Over the course of the two-year kidnapping she was raped by La Salle on a nearly daily basis.
    She escaped from La Salle with the help of a neighbor and phoned her sister to tell her to send the FBI.
    After his arrest, La Salle was tried, convicted, and sentenced to 30 - 35 years in prison under the Mann Act.
    She was killed in a highway accident when the car she was riding in plowed into the rear of a parked truck (she was only fifteen).
    Her case inspired one of the most controversial novels of the 20th-century.

Credit: BoyWithTheGreenHair


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