Strevell is a

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, United States, approximately north of the

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state line and roughly south–southeast of

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. It is located in the

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along the former routing of U.S. Route 30S, and later the former routing of

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Child abduction recovery

Sixty years after the school in the community was closed and year after becoming a ghost town, Strevell made national

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s. On July 14, 1983 a four-year-old girl was abducted from a

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, Utah. Despite a massive search, the child could not be found. Two days later, the

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in Utah received a call from a

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who reported that he had found the girl sitting in the abandoned school building when he stopped for the night. (The police never suspected the biker had any involvement in the abduction.)

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Child abduction recovery

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