long start listening with a free NUMBER_TOKEN-day trial of audible by heading over to URL_TOKEN rainbot or just text rainbot to NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN. again to access everything we just talked about that's URL_TOKEN rainbot or tex rainbot to NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN. as unsettling as it may seem people disappearing without a trace isn't all that uncommon even in the western world what sets this particular story apart isn't that a child went missing but rather the nature of her disappearance and the events that followed events that have left the public and law enforcement alike scratching their heads for decades we're talking of course about the apparent kidnapping of anthony cayedito a nine-year-old girl from gallup new mexico who's said to have been snatched from her home in the middle of the night while her mother slept it's a case both mainstream media and true crime enthusiasts have consistently returned to over the years however in spite of or perhaps because of this level of attention antonin's disappearance has consistently fallen prey to misinformation lackluster research and a miasma of baseless claims here we'll attempt to clear up some of that confusion and give you the most comprehensive look at this case to date no matter the source the story begins on april NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN. antonet and her two younger sisters eight-year-old sadie and five-year-old wendy were according to their mother penny left in the care of a babysitter while she was having a night out with her friends while this is by no means conclusive evidence to the contrary it is worth noting that at this point nowhere could we find this babysitter named or a version of events from the babysitter's perspective it bears mentioning because following the night's events both antonette's parents and her siblings would repeatedly emphasize her level of maturity for her age and paint a picture of a child routinely taking on the role of an adult caregiver regardless in penny's account she says she arrived back at NUMBER_TOKEN arnold street around midnight at which point her three daughters were asleep she dismissed the babysitter and proceeded to talk with a now awake antoinette until roughly NUMBER_TOKEN am and this is where the narrative really starts to splinter in an attempt to make things as clear as possible we're going to start with the version of events often parroted but rarely questioned this is what you'll find on wikipedia along with a myriad of news articles and blog posts this account comes from the youngest of the three sisters then a five-year-old wendy montoya according to wendy sometime after NUMBER_TOKENam they noticed a knock on the door and a voice of a male claiming to be uncle joe antoinette would be the one to answer and when she did two men grabbed her they carried her kicking and screaming into a brown van threw her inside and as we all know she was never seen again now what people often miss here is that this version of events hadn't come to light immediately following anton's disappearance and only actually surfaced five years later when wendy now age NUMBER_TOKEN was approached by the fbi and asked if she remembered anything about that night she explained to investigators that she couldn't see the faces of either kidnapper and that she hadn't brought up what she'd
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