CANTON, OH—Nonetheless holding out hope and never wishing to disturb the numerous reminiscences the area held for them, native dad and mom Gil and Madelyn Hurcomb confirmed Wednesday that it comforted them to maintain their lacking daughter’s cage precisely how she left it when she escaped three years in the past. “If our valuable Lizzie ever returns, we would like her to have the ability to return to her acquainted 2-by-5-foot metal enclosure and really feel as if she by no means broke free,” stated a visibly distraught Madelyn Hurcomb, admitting that she knew guests to her residence most likely discovered it odd after they walked previous the cage, peeked by means of its bars, and observed that she continued to maintain her daughter’s water dish topped up and her feeding trough stuffed with rotting scraps. “I nonetheless pray on daily basis we’ll recapture her, and I simply can’t think about eliminating all of the bloodstains and claw marks which were there since she was somewhat woman. I can’t even carry myself to alter out the newspapers.” Although the whole lot else stays the identical, Gil Hurcomb informed reporters he had just lately satisfied his spouse to let him put new manacles and leg irons within the cage, in order that if their daughter ever did return, she would by no means, ever get away once more.
