Charlotte Sena was rescued from the home of suspect Craig Nelson Ross Jr., 47, after investigators tracked him down to his mother’s house in Ballston Spa where his camper was parked in the backyard, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Monday night.
The 9-year-old girl who was abducted from an upstate New York park over the weekend was found safe inside a cupboard in her alleged kidnapper’s camper after cops tracked him down through a ransom note he left the child’s distraught family early Monday morning.
Charlotte Sena was rescued from the home of suspect Craig Nelson Ross Jr., 47, after investigators tracked him down to his mother’s house in Ballston Spa where his camper was parked in the backyard, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Monday night.
Ross reportedly dropped a ransom letter in the Sena family’s mailbox at 4:20 a.m. Monday. Cops fingerprinted the note and matched prints they lifted off it to a 1999 DWI arrest in Saratoga which Ross had on his record.
“He literally drove up to the family’s mailbox, assuming they were not home [at] 4:20 in the morning, opens the mailbox and inserts the ransom note leaving the critical piece of evidence behind — his own fingerprint,” Hochul said at a press conference Monday night.
