A little girl, named Starry, was playing outside her grandmother's apartment building. Her mom, Marina, kept an eye on the _______ from a window. At about 4 pm, Starry walked around the corner of the building to get her bike and _______.

“I took my eyes _______ her for five minutes, and she was gone,” says Marina. “I knew something was _______,” she adds, _______ when she saw that Starry's bike was _______ here and found an old credit card her daughter had been playing with _______ near the bike. Marina called 911.

Policemen came soon, blocking off streets and _______ the neighborhood. Officers handed out a photo of the blond (金发) girl. Many people joined in.

Temar Boggs, 15, was with some friends helping his elderly neighbor when one searcher _______ them and asked if they'd seen the girl. ________ the boys, none of them had seen her. Temar was approached with a photo of Starry. “I ________ that I was going to find her,” he says. He borrowed a bike from a friend and sped away. The boy searched without a plan, ________ keeping a sharp eye out as he rode on.

Then Temar ________ a car driving down a side street and turning back, ________ the driver was   unfamiliar with the neighborhood. He followed it. The car pulled an ________ U-turn at the top of a hill—a group of policemen had gathered there.

The car passed the boy as it circled back ________ the hill. Temar made eye contact (接触) with the man behind the wheel, and spied a tiny blond girl in the passenger seat. Temar ________ knew “it was her, for sure.” The boy ________ fast after the car, but the driver kept moving, slowly winding his way through the neighborhood. ________, the driver pulled the car to the street side a few hundred feet ahead of him and pushed open the passenger-side door. Starry ________ out of the car. The kidnapper (绑架者) sped away but was caught by the police the next day.