Quotes related to the disappearance of teenager Lindsey Ryan

"We need encouragement. The police need encouragement." - Carol Ryan, Lindsey's mother.

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"She was starting to discover that she was pretty." - Carol Ryan, on her daughter.

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"If abductors know that many people are looking for them, it will have to be a prevention tool at some point because they're not going to want to take that much risk." - Polly Klaas Foundation spokeswoman Jenni Thompson, on the Amber Alert system.

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"We have a relational faith (in God). It is necessarily manifested in the closest relationships you have, in your immediate family. The best-lived faith is that which is reflected in your family." - Patrick Ryan, Lindsey's father.

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"As parents, our intuition was ... that this man was somebody to be avoided, or at least watched and scrutinized very carefully." Patrick Ryan, on 56-year-old Terry Drake, who disappeared with Lindsey.

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"It's such a bizarre case that it's always stayed with me," Evansville, Ind., lawyer Glenn Grampp, on Drake's 1977 murder conviction.

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