On the seventh day after my daughter Anna Lawson went missing, I, Elise Lawson, took the entire kindergarten hostage.
All twenty-seven children and two teachers were locked in the classroom with me.
I told the police: "If you can’t find my daughter, I’ll kill one child every thirty minutes."
The kindergarten principal, Isabella Reed, knelt on the ground crying: "Your daughter’s disappearance has nothing to do with me! Why should other children pay with their lives?"
I glanced at my watch and said calmly: "Twenty-nine minutes left. Please hurry and find my daughter."
I knew she was somewhere in this kindergarten.
Five minutes earlier, Isabella had...
On the seventh day after my daughter Anna Lawson went missing, I, Elise Lawson, took the entire kindergarten hostage.
All twenty-seven children and two teachers were locked in the classroom with me.
I told the police: "If you can’t find my daughter, I’ll kill one child every thirty minutes."
The kindergarten principal, Isabella Reed, knelt on the ground crying: "Your daughter’s disappearance has nothing to do with me! Why should other children pay with their lives?"
I glanced at my watch and said calmly: "Twenty-nine minutes left. Please hurry and find my daughter."
I knew she was somewhere in this kindergarten.
Five minutes earlier, Isabella had been arrogant outside the door.
I leaned against the door as the children in the classroom continued playing, oblivious to what was happening. Only the two female teachers stared at me with terror in their eyes.
Outside, Isabella pounded on the iron door, her voice shrill: "What the hell do you want? What does your missing daughter have to do with me? Open this door! Parents are coming to pick up their kids!"
I said nothing, pulled an assembled gun from my pocket, turned toward the ceiling, and pulled the trigger.
Isabella staggered back two steps, her lips trembling: "Are you insane? This is illegal! I’m calling the police! Don’t you know kidnapping children is punishable by death?"
I sneered, running my fingers along the barrel: "Go ahead and call them, but you’re in no position to negotiate with me."
