If You Find Me Dead: The Kidnapping of Abby Drover

The true crime classic RESURRECTION, written years before the Cleveland house of horrors, has a chilling new title about a young girl's abduction and fear of being murdered.With 8 pages of photographs, IF YOU FIND ME The Kidnapping of Abby Drover, now tells how a courageous young victim hid a note in her boot, identifying her abductor, thinking she'd never escape her underground cell and that her body would eventually be found in the Pacific Ocean. “Compelling . . . an inspiration for others to reach out!” — Leeza Gibbons, NBC-TV.“Utterly stunning . . . inspirational . . . riveting,” — readers’ comments on Amazon.Trapped, chained and abused for six months in her dismal underground chamber at the age of 12 and then 13, courageous Abby despairs for her life before heart-breakingly writing the note identifying her kidnapper.“If I don't live through this,” says her tear-stained plea. “I would like my body to be cremated and the ashes poured all over my house . . . .“ If you find me dead, my killer is . . . He kidnapped me on the morning of March 10, 1976. I also died, if so, after my 13th birthday.”Abby then stoically hides this note in the lining of one of her boots, assuming it will eventually be washed up somewhere along the shoreline together with her lifeless body.Instead, readers will discover how everyone worked tirelessly to solve the mystery, including a self-proclaimed psychic who incredibly and almost exactly pinpointed Abby's whereabouts!Now years later, Abby collaborates with the author (who originally covered her miraculous rescue as a newspaper reporter) to tell you her story, and explore the twisted mind of her abductor.In her own words, Abby describes how she was abused and starved during six months of solitary confinement as she lay helplessly captive less than half a block from home — and how she has since survived her harrowing ordeal. In addition, you can now glimpse into the mind of a supposedly reformed kidnapper, who seeks freedom and expects Abby to forgive him.The kidnapper claims he has never abused anyone else and, incredibly, has numerous misguided supporters whom he continues to deceive almost to his final days — when the awful truth finally comes out.But ultimately, through these shocking, deeply moving pages, there emerges an inspirational testimony to one young girl’s gulp-inducing courage—and her indomitable will to triumph.“Gripping . . .compelling, tightly written . . . flair for investigation,” — Paul Musgrove, The Vancouver Sun.“A gripping story of real-life horror and suspense, written with Drover’s co-operation,” Cathleen Fillmore, Quill & Quire Magazine. “Illuminating, highly commendable, good reading.”