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Lisk-Silva alerts launched
On the fourth anniversary of the Lisk sisters' disappearance, the Spotsylvania Sheriff's Office kicks off a new missing-child alert system named in their memory.Date published: 5/2/2001
Lisk-Silva alerts launched A pickup driver grabbed a little girl from a church parking lot in Dallas two years ago, but was apparently too distracted by his own description blaring from the radio to hold onto his victim. The alert was broadcast every 15 minutes. The kidnapper abruptly stopped the truck and told the terrified 9-year-old to get out. The man was never caught, but the girl returned home alive. On the fourth anniversary of the Lisk sisters' disappearance, the Spotsylvania County Sheriff's Office yesterday announced it has created its own missing-child alert system, the first in Virginia. It's called the Lisk-Silva Plan, named in memory of slain Spotsylvania girls Sofia Silva and Kristin and Kati Lisk. When a child is reported missing, the Sheriff's Office will notify four local radio stations and Adelphia cable TV Channel 3. Those stations will break with an emergency tone, then broadcast abduction details. "When we issue a police lookout, it might get out to 60 local law enforcement officers," said Maj. Howard Smith of the Spotsylvania Sheriff's Office. "With the Lisk-Silva plan, we'll reach at least 200,000 residents." Kristin, 15, and Kati Lisk, 12, were kidnapped from their Spotsylvania home on May 1, 1997. Five days later, a highway worker found their bodies floating in the South Anna River. Forensic evidence linked their killings to the death of 16-year-old Sofia Silva, who was abducted and killed seven months before. A task force of FBI agents and police detectives have investigated more than 11,000 leads, completed forensic examinations on more than 10,000 pieces of evidence and finished more than 400,000 DNA comparisons without success. "The more eyes and ears we have out there, the greater our chances of finding these missing children," Sheriff Ron Knight said yesterday. Kristin and Kati's parents, Ron and Patti Lisk, attended yesterday's kickoff press conference, as did Sofia's family--her mother, Phyliss, father, Umberto, and sister, Pam. Two men who were instrumental in getting the Lisk-Silva Plan up and running also attended. Conway Richardson and Harland Geortz both read a Reader's Digest article last year about the Texas alert system. The neighbors decided to act. Geortz, who heads the Sawhill subdivision's Neighborhood Watch, went to the Sheriff's Office with the idea.
Read more stories about Spotsylvania Date published: 5/2/2001
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