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I didn't see this story here, and just saw it last night:
As soon as Cal Ripken Jr. found out his mother was missing, he jumped in his car and set out to find her himself.
The Orioles' "Iron Man" got a call from his sister, Elly, about 9 p.m. July 24 saying that someone spotted a car bearing Violet Ripken's license plates with a woman tied up in the back seat. The police were asking: Did the Ripkens know where their 74-year-old mother was?
"It was the worst feeling you could imagine," Ripken said Friday, drumming his fingers on a tabletop and pausing to avoid breaking down in front of reporters and television cameras gathered at Camden Yards to hear him speak out about his mother's abduction and mysterious return.
Aberdeen Deputy Police Chief Stephen Smith said his department continues to investigate leads in the case and was analyzing evidence collected from Violet Ripken's 1998 Lincoln Town Car, in which the kidnapper drove her around Central Maryland for about 24 hours. Police expected more tips to roll in after Cal Ripken's appearance. "There's been a continuing, ongoing investigation," Smith said.Violet Ripken — most people call her Vi — was abducted at gunpoint from the garage of her modest Aberdeen home, where she's lived for 46 years and raised four children with her late husband, former Orioles manager Cal Ripken Sr. She was returned uninjured, left in her car about 100 yards from her home.
As soon as Cal Ripken Jr. found out his mother was missing, he jumped in his car and set out to find her himself.
The Orioles' "Iron Man" got a call from his sister, Elly, about 9 p.m. July 24 saying that someone spotted a car bearing Violet Ripken's license plates with a woman tied up in the back seat. The police were asking: Did the Ripkens know where their 74-year-old mother was?
"It was the worst feeling you could imagine," Ripken said Friday, drumming his fingers on a tabletop and pausing to avoid breaking down in front of reporters and television cameras gathered at Camden Yards to hear him speak out about his mother's abduction and mysterious return.
Aberdeen Deputy Police Chief Stephen Smith said his department continues to investigate leads in the case and was analyzing evidence collected from Violet Ripken's 1998 Lincoln Town Car, in which the kidnapper drove her around Central Maryland for about 24 hours. Police expected more tips to roll in after Cal Ripken's appearance. "There's been a continuing, ongoing investigation," Smith said.Violet Ripken — most people call her Vi — was abducted at gunpoint from the garage of her modest Aberdeen home, where she's lived for 46 years and raised four children with her late husband, former Orioles manager Cal Ripken Sr. She was returned uninjured, left in her car about 100 yards from her home.
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