CLEVELAND ¨C Shorty needed a ride home. She got confused sometimes, the result of some undefined mental condition, and wasn¡¯t always sure where she¡¯d wandered. Her family knew this about Michelle ¡°Shorty¡± Knight, all 139 cm of her, and that¡¯s why they worried.
She got in a car.
It begins there, with that simple act, a 21-year-old ¡ª in many ways still very much a girl ¡ª got in a car. Aug. 22, 2002. If she¡¯d looked up in that last moment of freedom, she would have seen a church steeple.
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