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Trigger warning: The article contains mention child abuse that may be disturbing. Reader discretion is advised.
First, there was a phone call by the serial killer. A kind woman from the school spoke with 11-year-old Kristine Heck about her interests in modeling, tennis, and roller skating. The caller said to her, “Your mom is worried about you,” “She claims that you skate and model. You require a companion.
Their Boynton Beach home continued to get calls, and Kristine didn’t want to be impolite when she finally discovered that the caller was a man. As the conversations went on, he began discussing sexual topics that unnerved her. She told her parents at that point, and they advised her to cut off communication with him.
When she saw her eerie caller again, it was face-to-face and at guns. Christopher Wilder kidnapped Kristine and her 10-year-old sister on a sunny day in June 1983, within sight of the Boynton Beach Library, and carried them miles away to Okeeheelee Park in West Palm Beach.
