ABDUCTED: My Struggle to Remember

My book has been published on Amazon and you can now purchase it through the Amazon link below. 

https://www.amazon.com/Abducted-Struggle-Remember-Alice-Cunningham/dp/B0CWYFVCCH

If you live in North West Arkansas, you can buy the book directly from me. Contact me at sallierascal@cox.net and we can make arrangements for you to get it.  

 

 

I was kidnapped from Denver, Colorado in 1948 when a classmate and her mother facilitated my kidnapping. I was found in a police raid a few months later. My book records my journey through life, the repression of my memory, my life in New York and San Francisco, the return of my memory and my many years of struggle to find out the truth. My dreams led the way.

I began working on my book in 2017 when my therapist at the time, Dr. Dianne Bradley, empowered me to research my case on the internet. I read all of my dreams again, began cross-referencing them and discovered there were many with similar themes. I also realized that the names of streets, buildings, and people were described in my nightmares. An example of how cross-referencing worked to find similar dream themes and traumas, is read my blog called "Five Dreams: Pinchers," published on February 9, 2024. You will see how my dreams used different metaphors to express the same trauma.

https://alicecunninghamdreams.blogspot.com/2024/02/five-dreams-pinchers.html

 

I signed up for newspapers.com and Google earth and spent several years looking up names and places recorded in my dreams. When I discovered, on the internet, a retired FBI agent who had worked in the field of child prostitution,  pornography, and I wrote to him. When he responded, I drove for three days to Reno, Nevada, to meet him. He was able to verify as reported in my blog, published on  February 18, 2024 called  "I Meet Roger Young," all the things I remembered happening to me. 

 https://alicecunninghamdreams.blogspot.com/2024/02/i-meet-roger-young.html

 

 

My brother Stephen, who lives in the Los Angeles area, agreed to drive me around the city to look at places recorded in my dreams. We found an apartment building I lived in for a time, a parking lot on Henry street that connected to the Los Angeles Juvenile Court Building, a couple of movie theaters where porn movies were shown and one in which live sex acts were performed. My dreams also described buildings. For example, "One of the tallest buildings in the area,"  turned out to be the Department of Justice and City Hall buildings. A picture of them, as well as pictures of other buildings I was able to identify, are in Abducted.

 

I began buying books. In one called, L.A. Landmarks: Lost and Almost Lost, I discovered through my dream description I had been in the NBC Radio City Hollywood building, which was torn down in 1964. 

 

In two book my FBI agent William F. Roemer, Jr., called Man Against the Mob: The Inside Story of How the FBI Cracked the Chicago Mob, and Enforcer: Spilotro-The Chicago Mob's Man Over Las Vegas, I learned that the FBI, from 1908 to 1975, was located in the Department of Justice Building at Ninth and Pennsylvania NW in Washington D.C. My dream description of this building matched this picture with the steps and fountain. Other dreams mention Washington D. C. I also learned that the FBI made deals with organized crime to protect witnesses.

In books about the Mafia, and in particular organized crime figures in the Los Angeles area and Denver, Colorado, I discovered several criminals I met in Los Angeles. Also, a dream in which I recorded the name "Checkers," was explained in the book, Smaldone: The Untold Story of an American Crime Family, by Dick Kreck, All of this is recounted in my book.  

Another important dream clue was the word, "cartoons," which appeared three times. I write about this in my blog called "Cartoons," published on October 7, 2023. https://alicecunninghamdreams.blogspot.com/2023/10/cartoons.html  Two of these dreams occurred before my memory returned. Cartoons are what pornographers call pornographic films and photographs. 

It is my hope that my honesty and the details around my abduction and my subsequent struggles will encourage survivors to find joy in living and help other readers understand the long-term effect of childhood trauma. I want the world to know in explicit terms what happens to children who have been trafficked for use in this unholy global enterprise. Childhood trauma is not a life sentence. Indeed, survivors can forge purposeful, productive, and rewarding lives despite the horrors of their pasts.

I appreciate your interest in my book and thank you for reading my blogs.

Onward and Upward.