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Final Scream: The Abduction and Presumed Murder of Angela Hammond
On the evening of April 4, 1991, twenty-year-old Angela ‘Angie’ Hammond attended a barbeque with her fiancé, eighteen-year-old Rob Shafer. After the festivities ended, she dropped him off at his family’s home where his little brother was waiting. It was just after 10:00 p.m. when she drove off into the night.
An hour later, Angie called Rob from a phone booth located smack dab in the middle of their hometown of Clinton, Missouri. Even though they would be together soon, she wanted to check in and solidify their plans to meet up later.
A few minutes into their conversation, Angie mentioned that a truck appeared to be circling her. Wary of the driver’s intentions, she made a point of telling Rob that the vehicle was a green, two-tone older model pickup truck with a decal depicting a fish jumping out of water on the back windshield.
As Angie was relating the details, the truck pulled up next to her. The driver, a bearded man dressed in dirty overalls and glasses, got out and made his way to the phone booth beside the one Angie was using. After a short time, he returned to his truck, where he began rummaging around with…
