Sue Quackenbush

It's not just that we lose someone that we love, but the world loses the potential of who that person is.

No.

Morgan was kidnapped in 1995.

We were visiting in a neighboring community at a baseball game, and she, at the very end of the game, went to catch fireflies with two other children when she was taken.

We were one block away from the police department, and they responded immediately.

They had 10 separate agencies on site that night.

We had

an enormous outpouring of resources and response.

But there was no technology back then.

You know, at one point, someone got a fax machine hooked up so that it would fax continually so that Morgan's flyer would be faxed out.

And the media was there the first night and they said very compassionately to us, like, we're going to have Morgan's face on TV first thing Saturday morning.

But, you know, that was 12 hours, more than 12 hours after she was taken.

We just did not have

those kind of resources that we have now.

I mean, if we could take one thing back to 1995 that we have now, it would be all the technology and all the resources that we have.

You know, I do think that makes a tremendous difference in cases today.

What we have tried to make up in the interim is the advocating for families to stand in the gap, to help them be able to build that communication with law enforcement, to bridge the lack of communication that happens between Travis's family and law enforcement, to be that voice that

is trusted by law enforcement and to help them see what it is the family needs.

One of the things that we do is we invite that family and that law enforcement team to our office and we bring them to the table together and we break bread.

We eat a meal together and it literally breaks the barriers down and everybody talks.