This week, the gals discuss what it takes to smuggle someone across international borders. Topics include legal loopholes, a fishy wife and her fishier husband, and yet another reason not to go to Wisconsin. This episode is paired with The Prisoner: Blindfold White Blend, so grab a glass, check in with your mother, yell (don’t scream), and tune in for International Abductions.
Ep23 International Abductions
July 12, 2017
Cecilie Finkelstein
Baby Cecilie with her parents, Tone Vik Nerby and Herbert Finkelstein.
Tone (Tuna) was a Norwegian Kindergarten teacher.
Cecilie’s father was a secular Jewish chemist originally from New York.
When Cecilie was 2-years old, her parents divorced and she continued to live with her mother in Oslo.
When Cecilie was 4 years old, her father abducted her.
Herbert changed his daughter’s name to Sarah-Cecilie Finkelstein.
Sarah-Cecilie with her father while on the run in the United States.
Every so often, Tone would get a picture of Sarah-Cecilie to show her she was still alive.
When Sarah-Cecilie was 12-years old, she noticed her picture on a milk carton and realized what had happened to her.
Sarah-Cecilie was finally reunited with her mother at the age of 18 during the 4th of July in NYC.
Sarah-Cecilie Finkelstein reunited with her Norwegian mother, Tone Vik Nerby.
Sarah-Cecile is now happily married with children of her own.
There is a 2012 documentary, “Sarah-Cecilie”, about Finkelstein’s abduction.
Connie McCallister, went missing in 2004 at the age of 16.
The McCallister Family : Connie, center, with her brother Morris, left, sister Jeannie, and mother Cindy.
Connie with her family before her abduction.
