blossomed here at the mall would a few weeks later get cindy in hot water with her father. this mall was about seven miles from cindy s house and she had standing orders from her dad never to walk home, but she did. and a single dad raising a teenager needed his rules followed. and so i had grounded her which meant what? come home right after school? right after school and to stay at the house. grounded. no mall, no scott. they went to different schools. i think she was probably frustrated like any 13-year-old would be when grounded, but then at that time, the most important thing on her mind was scott, you know, how am i going to talk to scott? how am i going to see scott? after school friday, april 18th, 1986, cindy said good-bye to her friends cathie and theresa, and reported directly home as per her father s punishment. but the next evening, saturday, cindy bolted from house arrest. well, she called me and wanted to come over, and she escaped her house, came over to