Claim: A girl named Bella Marie Lamb has been kidnapped from her Columbia, TN, home.
Example: [Collected via e-mail, December 2011]
ABDUCTED CHILD
Have you seen Bella Marie?
If you have any information on the whereabouts of Bella please call (615) 483-6220.
Bella is the daughter of Dixie Durham Lamb and granddaughter of Jerry and Sandra Durham in Hohenwald. Please print and post as many places as you can! Please forward this
Origins: This alert about a girl named Bella Marie Lamb supposedly kidnapped from her Columbia, Tennessee, home began circulating on the Facebook social networking site in mid-December 2011. However, the [Columbia] Daily Herald reported on
"Someone in the family made a poster saying the child was abducted," The poster, which was emailed, states the girl was abducted from Columbia on The child is in custody of the parent who was granted temporary custody by the courts, the release said.
Columbia Police say they are not currently investigating any kind of child abduction after a poster circulated online Wednesday claiming a young girl had been abducted.
Last updated: 15 December 2011
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The Columbia Daily Herald. "Abduction Claim Proves Inaccurate." 15 December 2011.
