One minute, Charley Jorgenson and her sister, Autumn, are sitting in their parents’ SUV, waiting for dad to come back. In the next, a total stranger is driving these kidnapped sisters away. This terrifying moment took place when their dad, Adam Jorgenson, stopped for a car wash at a local Kwik Trip in Wisconsin. With the car still running, Adam stepped away to grab a cloth to dry the car.
He was still within arms length when someone asked if he could give them directions. That’s when he heard the screech of his tires. As Adam called 911, his girls were left to figure out what to do next. This would be difficult for anyone, but this is even more true for an 8- and 2-year-old.
Soon after driving away, the man who stole the vehicle told 8-year-old Charley to get out of the car. Although she was scared, she took a moment to figure out if that was a good idea or not.
“Then, he told me to get out,” Charley recalls , “and I was like, ‘What should I do? Should I run and be a scaredy-cat or should I save my sister, too.’ So I said, ‘What about Autumn?’”