At Lake City Junior High School the subsequent morning, 12-yr-previous Kimberly Dianne Leach was summoned to her homeroom by a teacher to retrieve a overlooked purse she never ever returned to course. That afternoon, he backtracked 60 miles (97 km) westward to Lake City. There was no serious access to countrywide marketing for area motels and no nationwide network to facilitate reservation of a home in a distant metropolis.