Episode 134: The Real Lolita & The Fake FBI (Case of Sally Horner)
The FBI agent watched her across the store. He was seasoned enough to know what that little girl was trying to do.
He watched her steal a notebook and make a run for the door. Not today. The agent grabbed her arm and stopped her. She was under arrest.
“I’m an FBI agent and you just committed a crime little girl. I need to take you to my boss.”
This is how Sally Horner was kidnapped, held hostage, and tortured for 2 years.
Book Rec: “The Real Lolita” - by Sara Weinman (without her this case would have been forgotten).
Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com
Source notes:
Book: “Lolita” - by Vladimir Nabokov
Book: “The Real Lolita” - by Sara Weinman
https://web.archive.org/web/20180917143121/https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-salacious-non-mystery-of-the-real-lolita
https://web.archive.org/web/20180906154740/https://www.thecut.com/2018/09/excerpt-the-real-lolita-by-sarah-weinman.html
http://thenabokovian.org/node/22876
https://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/dolilol.htm
http://www.dvrbs.com/people/CamdenPeople-Florence-Sally-Horner.htm
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/sunday/the-sunday-edition-september-9-2018-1.4806985/the-forgotten-real-life-story-behind-lolita-1.4807124
https://www.npr.org/2018/09/11/646656280/the-real-lolita-investigates-the-true-crime-story-of-sally-horner
https://oakcliff.advocatemag.com/2019/06/the-real-lolita-kidnapping-victim-sally-horner-was-held-in-a-west-dallas-trailer-park/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Sally_Horner
DISCLAIMER: Some links are listed in the source material but the material may never be discussed in the podcast (I just wanted to list them because they gave me a deeper picture of the case in full). If there are un-verifiable sources (ie Reddit) - they are typically referred to as un-verified sources, opinions, and or theories in the podcast and not treated as fact.