Dru Sjodin's mother calls suspect's mom
I can't even imagine what it must have been like to have had to make this phone call. I hope that I will never have to know that kind of pain.
GRAND FORKS, North Dakota (AP) -- While officials and friends searched without success for Dru Sjodin, her mother went looking for help from the mother of the man charged with kidnapping the missing college student.
"I asked her to reach out to her son and please ask him to lead us to Dru," Linda Walker told the Grand Forks Herald for its Thursday editions. "I asked mother-to-mother."
Alfonso Rodriguez Jr., 50, of Crookston, Minnesota, is being held on $5 million bond. Rodriguez has said through his attorney that he had nothing to do with the Nov. 22 disappearance of Sjodin, who is enrolled at the University of North Dakota.
Walker said Dolores Rodriguez did not respond to her request when they spoke Saturday. But she said Dolores Rodriguez and her daughter, Illeana Noyes, were compassionate, expressing concern about Sjodin's safety and the family's well-being.
With each passing day, the likelihood that Mrs. Sjodin's daughter will be found alive diminishes, particularly in subzero North Dakota. I can only hope that there will be a happy reunion at the end of this.