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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 9yearold 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 Sheriffs Office yesterday announced it has created its own missingchild alert system, the first in Virginia.Its called the LiskSilva Plan, named in memory of slain Spotsylvania girls Sofia Silva and Kristin and Kati Lisk.When a child is reported missing, the Sheriffs 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 Sheriffs Office. With the LiskSilva plan, well 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 16yearold 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 Katis parents, Ron and Patti Lisk, attended yesterdays kickoff press conference, as did Sofias familyher mother, Phyliss, father, Umberto, and sister, Pam.Two men who were instrumental in getting the LiskSilva Plan up and running also attended.Conway Richardson and Harland Geortz both read a Readers Digest article last year about the Texas alert system. The neighbors decided to act.Geortz, who heads the Sawhill subdivisions Neighborhood Watch, went to the Sheriffs Office with the idea.

 

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