Fear
Mary Katherine listens to the floor creaking and thinks she can tell where Elizabeth and Brian are. When she thinks it’s safe, she gets out of bed so she can alert her parents. However she almost runs into Elizabeth and Brian who are looking into her brother’s soon. So she runs back to her room, fearful she’s been spotted, “I thought, you know, be quiet, because if he hears you, he might take you too, and you’re the only person who has seen this,” Mary Katherine says in a later interview. “I was, like, shaking.”
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Mary Katherine Alerts Mom and Dad
Shortly before 4 a.m., Mary Katherine runs to her parents’ bedroom and wakes them. She says that Elizabeth is gone, but her parents dismiss it as a bad dream. Ed goes room to room, but can’t find Elizabeth. That’s when Mary Katherine says, “You’re not going to find her. A man came and took her. He had a knife.” However Ed and Lois don’t think anything of her comment, until Lois notices the downstairs screen window has been cut with a knife.
Mary Katherine Alerts Mom and Dad
