Michael Mayhugh

Riley Walker Is on the Run. Content Warning.

Fourteen years ago, my daughter, Anna-Lee, went missing from our small town in New Mexico. She had been playing outside. When she wasn’t there come dinner-time, we immediately panicked. Anna-Lee was a particularly free-spirited child, and at eight years old, we could hardly get her to stay near us at the grocery store. Why then, were her parents letting her run around unsupervised?