While Patricia was being searched, officers discovered far more than anyone expected. Inside her purse was a one-way ticket to Seattle, along with a folder filled with legal papers and handwritten notes.
One document was a guardianship petition with blank signature lines. Another contained pages describing how she planned to convince people that I was mentally unstable and unable to care for Lily.
Airport detectives immediately secured surveillance footage. Every camera showed Patricia deliberately running through the restricted security checkpoint and charging straight toward us without hesitation.
The officers exchanged serious looks. What had first appeared to be a family dispute was now clearly being treated as a carefully planned attempted abduction-
