Kidnapping Victim Reunites With FBI Agents

A newborn girl kidnapped 10 years ago from a Kansas City area hospital was reunited with some of the FBI agents who helped get her back to her mother.


Carlie Shockey was still a baby when her mother introduced her to investigators before. She didn't understand then who the smiling men in suits were, but knows now about the agents and their lasting role in her young life.


"She was only 1 -- she didn't remember that," mother Trish Shockey said.

The 10-year-old broke into tears Wednesday during her and her family's visit to the Kansas City FBI office.


"I understand that I was taken from the hospital," she said, cutting her sentence short and lowering her head to cry when asked about her 1998 kidnapping.


Trish Shockey decided to tell her after seeing a newspaper story over the weekend that mentioned the case and included a photograph of baby Carlie.


"I just wanted her to meet the people who brought her home to us and let her know how special she is," Trish Schockey said.


She said she also remains grateful to those who worked the case and wanted to remind them of that.


"Without them, no telling when or if I would have got her back," she said.


Carlie was taken Jan. 28, 1998, from the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., while her mother was asleep. The kidnappers, Amanda Tull and boyfriend Buddy Hall, were arrested the next day and later admitted their roles in the child's abduction.


Tull, who was 19 at the time, pleaded guilty to kidnapping and was sentenced to five years and 10 months in prison. Hall was sentenced to two years and three months in prison for being an accessory.

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