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A Decatur, Georgia, woman named Tracie Dean stopped at a service station in the town of Evergreen, Alabama, in January. While there, she had an uneasy feeling about a man she noticed who was accompanied by a little girl. Something did not feel quite "right" about the way the pair interacted.
"She came over to me and said 'Hi.' I said 'Hi.' She wandered off," Dean said in an interview with WXIA-TV in Atlanta.
When the girl left with the man, Dean was uneasy. "It just didn't feel right," Dean said. "There was tension between the two of them. He wasn't nice to her. Not a warm person at all."
Dean wrote down the license plate number of the man's vehicle and called 911, but the police dispatcher said the vehicle "checked out" (i.e., it had no related warrants), and police took no further action. But Dean still was not satisfied. Back in Georgia, she searched online databases listing information about missing children. She contacted missing children's organizations and various law enforcement agencies, all to no avail.
"I called America's Most Wanted," Dean told WXIA news reporters. "I don't understand why I got no response. I called all the right people. No one would listen to me."
Still, she refused to give up. She drove nearly 300 ...