He tortured her parents every year until her body was found.

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If the title isn't obvious enough, this is about a real crime that happened in the 1980's in California. There is a TL;DR at the bottom for those who do not wish to read the whole thing. Dorothy Scott and her son lived with Dorothy's aunt in Stanton, California. She worked about twenty minutes down the road at Swinger's Psycho Shop and Custom John's Head Shop. She was a secretary in the backroom of the establishment. Her parents lived only a few blocks away and took care of the son, Shawn, when she was at work. Her life was normal. Get up, Get Ready, Take Shawn To Her Parents, Go To Work. She'd pick him up every evening and cook him dinner, read to him or watch shows with him. Then she began getting calls. The calls were threatening in nature and the caller often told her that he was watching her every move. Then she disappeared. One day while at work, she noticed that one of her co-workers looked very ill and had a swollen red mark on his arm. She and another co-worker offered to drive him to the hospital. The doctors fixed him up and they were on their way. Dorothy went to go get the car but several minutes passed before her co-workers next saw her car. It was speeding their way, the headlights turned out bright so that they were blinded and unable to see inside the vehicle. They waited several more minutes before calling her parents and asking if they had seen her. They had not. The parents called the police and reported her missing. A week after she disappeared, Dorothy's Mother (Vera) answered the phone at their residence. "Are you Dorothy's Mother?" When she replied in the affirmative, the caller said "I've got her" and then hung up. Vera was home alone. The calls would continue once a week for nearly four years. A call came into a local paper where a man claimed that he was Dorothy's jilted lover and had killed her. In 1984 her remains were discovered, buried underneath the skeletal remains of a dog. Dorothy's parents would receive one last call after the news of her remains were publicized. "Is Dorothy Home?" TL;DR (Too Long ; Didn't Read) : Dorothy Scott began receiving phone calls from a man who would later kidnap and murder her. He would then harass her parents with phone calls. The man was never found. More info can be found at the link :