One question, she says, stayed with her. Most of the time the question comes to her at night. what could have happened What if the two of them in the SUV had managed to get her off the road, she and her daughter?

"Not a single police officer was out there that night," she says. "Only darkness. Forest to the right, forest to the left, behind us the SUV, right next to us."

Don't stop.

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