Babysitter Lured To Her Death With Fake Job Offer
15-year-old Kelly Cook was abducted and murdered in 1981. Her killer has never been found.
At 8:20 AM on April 22, 1981, 15-year-old Kelly Jane Evelyn Cook received a call from a man who identified himself as Bill Christensen. Kelly would babysit a couple of times a week for different families in the small village of Standard, Alberta, Canada, and Bill offered her a job for that night.
Though she was suspicious of the man, Christensen was a common surname in the area and he knew her neighbors’ names. Kelly’s mother agreed and she accepted his offer.
At 8:30 PM, a full-sized cream colored North American car pulled up to Kelly’s house and honked. Her mother watched as she got into the front passenger seat and the car drove away.
Every time Kelly babysat, she would call her family when she arrived at the person’s house. By midnight, she hadn’t called or returned home so her mother called the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police).
Every house in the village was searched, including abandoned buildings, but no evidence was found. Authorities contacted every Christensen family in town but none of them had heard of a “Bill Christensen”.
The phone call between Kelly and “Bill” that morning was traced to a local gas station.
