Hailey Owens

  Tuesday afternoon we were informed that a 10-year-old girl had gone missing and had been witnessed being abducted by a strange man. Most all of Springfield and people all over the country were in a panic over her disappearance. Within 2 hours of the girl's abduction, the Amber Alert was issued and sent to cell phones all over the nation in hopes that someone had some information. A couple who lived down the street from Hailey witnessed the entire thing and immediately jumped into action. They hopped in their car and followed the man, who was driving fast enough that he managed to escape the chase. Tuesday evening we were told the police had found the truck and the abductor and, oh the relief I felt. That is until I read further on and found that the girl was still missing, a very bad sign in a case like this. I kept checking Ky3.com in hopes that they had good news, but nothing. I was up until about one o'clock Wednesday morning and did not hear any more news. Immediately after waking up Wednesday I got online and looked up the case. Hailey Owens had been found, dead. Her body was dismembered and placed into two separate trash bags in the man's basement, which smelled like bleach. The man, Craig Wood, has been placed in custody and cannot harm anymore innocent children. I cannot fathom the thoughts that must run through the head of someone like this. It sickens me that the world and, most importantly Hailey's family has lost this sweet little angel, not because of natural causes or by accident, but because there are people in our world that enjoy doing the devil's work. He tied her up immediately following their arrival to his home and he shot her in the back of the head. This signifies that this man committed this horrible murder for the specific purpose of doing so; because he wanted to kill a kid. These things will never make sense to me. Ever. Why would anyone want to end the life of someone so innocent as a child? Why would anyone ever do something like this to someone who is too small to be able to fend for themselves? It takes a weak, sick, SAD soul to be able to commit a crime so pointless. These last few nights, while putting my angels to bed I've held them extra tight and prayed, in tears, with all my might. I will never allow anyone the opportunity to hurt my children. No child deserves to end their life in fear, having no idea what's going on or what's going to happen to them. Children are supposed to have a life ahead of them full of opportunity and love and anyone that wishes to take these things away from a child deserves way worse than anything they can do to that child.