Carla, a single mother juggling two jobs in the service industry, faces a heart-wrenching ordeal: her daughter, Anna, vanished the day after her 18th birthday. Despite desperate calls to multiple police departments and even the FBI, Carla has encountered frustrating roadblocks, prompting her to ask, “How do I get a militia together to get my daughter out of the place she’s in?”
Carla, like all the names used in this article, is a pseudonym.
