Inside the Deer Box: The Abduction of Paul Martin Andrews
On a freezing morning in 1973, a teenage boy was abducted by a serial sex offender and kept chained in a subterranean box buried in the woods. Police and his family searched frantically for him, but it was as if he had vanished into thin air. There were no clues, no witnesses and no trace of the boy. What investigators didn’t know was that the boy was in fact alive. And he was being forced to endure the unthinkable to survive his violent captor. Years later, that boy, now a man, would become a powerful victim’s advocate and would lead a campaign to change legislation to better protect children from predators.
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The Day of the Abduction
Thursday the 11th of January 1973 was extremely cold. A heavy belt of snow extended from North Carolina to Virginia. The city of Norfolk, Virginia saw 9 inches or 23 centimetres of snow, the heaviest single snowfall residents had seen since 1963. Across the Elizabeth River from Norfolk, in the independent city of Portsmouth, school children…
