Mo. girl welcomed home after kidnapper kills self

Thursday, July 8, 2010

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Four-year-old Alisa Maier clutched a teddy bear and smiled broadly at the crowd gathered Thursday in the yard where she was abducted three days earlier, then held captive before being abandoned alone in a faraway town.

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