Leave everything behind that might remind you of your past life, including pictures and credit cards and your driver's license. National Center for Missing and Exploited Children Ku's son Zephyr, by a different father, is also considered missing. The FBI believes that Faye Ku, left, abducted her sons Isaac, center, and Sage, right. The number of family abductions in which an abductor has assistance is elusive, but if Ku does have help, it would place her within an underground movement that for decades has worked to keep missing kids missing. "Oftentimes, I think people dismiss that as not a serious matter because children are with somebody who ostensibly loves them and cares about them," Ayn Dietrich, a spokeswoman for the FBI's Seattle division, which is overseeing the Cook case, says about family abductions. Only 28 percent of children were reported to law enforcement as missing. In 21 percent of those family abduction cases, the child was gone for a month or longer. That figure is three and a half times the amount of stranger abductions. "God only knows who she's associating with," says Helen Cook, the boys' stepmother.Īccording to the United States Department of Justice, an estimated 203,900 children were abducted by family members in 1999, the most recent year for which estimates exist. The boys' father says he thinks "some organization is helping her or just some individuals are helping her." and abroad where she is believed to have connections. Indicating the three of them are "among friends" suggests that Ku has help keeping herself and the boys underground, and law enforcement is focusing efforts on parts of the U.S. With few traces to follow-Ku left behind her credit cards and driver's license and her and the boys' electronic devices-the FBI is picking apart her letters. Their father, who lives near Seattle, had custody. The FBI believes that Ku abducted the two boys when they visited her in Los Angeles. Please do not send strangers who can only make life more dangerous for us." Another letter was addressed to her ex-husband, David Cook, the father of their boys, Sage and Isaac: "The children and I are safe among friends.
One, addressed to a friend and signed by Ku, said to cancel her phone plans and sell or get rid of her belongings, even the jewelry and cash. Updated | After her sons didn't return to their father after a visit with their mother last August, police discovered several typed letters while searching Faye Ku's home.
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