Police Wiretap Parents of Missing Baby

In November 1997 a frantic mom called 911 saying her 5-month-old baby girl was missing. Now, some 24 years later, the mystery of what happened to Sabrina Aisenberg remains unsolved.

In October 2012, Nancy Grace investigated the strange story which sadly hasn't changed much since.

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Original airdate: October 19, 2012

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[myunknownland]

I will be turning 70 this year. I was stolen when I was a toddler playing outside my front yard by a family who couldn't have children. Someone saw this and knew the couple so my parents got me back. This can still happen.

[joelmabrey]

I tell my 15 and 10 year old to keep the doors locked . It went on for 3 weeks with me telling them this . I came home one day from work and they had just got home from school. I had a buddy with me that was buying a lawnmower from me . I told him to walk up and check the door and if it's unlocked to walk in and yell as loud as he could. He did it and my kids SCREAMED louder than I have ever heard . I walked in behind him and started laughing. THEY ALWAYS made sure the doors were locked from that day on.

[AmyNCole-luvGod]

It’s odd to me that the mother stated the neighborhood had peeping toms and break-ins, yet, they left everything wide open, nothing locked. Doesn’t sound very responsible.

[leeleevalentine]

When I was around 17 my brother had a best friend who lived with his single mom next door. She was kind, would invite us over for dinner, baked us cookies all the time. One night on America’s Most Wanted we see my brother’s BF as a child next to an age progression picture. It was him. His “mom” kidnapped him as a child and moved to Canada next door. I’ll never forget that.

[firstlastname]

My daughter disappeared while I was ordering lunch for her, her slightly older (autistic) brother, and myself, at the mall. She was a toddler and it was the mid 90's. I went nuts and started yelling, as we were just a little ways to an exit from the mall and my son was near meltdown with his food ready to be eaten. An older woman heard me and started looking at nearby stores. An eternity later (a couple of minutes) she comes back with my precious baby. My daughter had gone to a candy store nearby ! After that she wore jingle bells on her ankle (and believe me I considered a leash). They were loud and people gave me looks but after you lose a child you don't care if it means your child will be safer. It would be the worst hell on earth to lose your child and not know what happened.

[valeriedemello]

The last time my German Shepherd slept in my room was the day before we brought our daughter home. From then until he died, he slept on the landing between our rooms. He was very protective of "his" baby!

[shadellsapp]

I don’t care how you grew up or where you live, I just can’t understand why people don’t lock up their homes containing their most prized possessions! It will never make sense to me.

[missykowalewski]

When I was 19 I worked at a gas station. At time it was gas and drinks. No food or anything. I was also 7 mo pregnant. One night a guy came in and forced me into the cooler and took money from the register and left. The doors were latched from the outside so I had to empty beer from a shelf and crawl out to call 911. Also had to call from a pay phone. For over a week the police hounded me and said they knew I stole the money. Did a polygraph which didn’t work because of my pregnancy but said they got what they want. Even told me they would arrest me in the next couple of days. Next night a guy did the same thing in a U-tote-um except he shot the person in the cooler. He was caught and confessed and told the police that he robbed a gas station but didn’t hurt the girl because she was pregnant. Not one apology from any of the assholes who verbally abused me for over a week.

[Katniss]

I was kidnapped by a neighbor when I was about 4 years old. She was a younger lady that lived in the same condo neighborhood in West Palm Beach, Florida at the time. We had a community pool there and she would come to the pool when my mom and I were there and was always very overly fond of me. She would let me play with her baby (I thought it was her baby, now I don't know) who was about 6 months old at the time. My parents had just separated and my mom was on the phone with my dad and I had wandered out the front door with my baby doll and stroller to the front yard when she had her back turned to me. (Please don't judge my mother, she is a wonderful and very attentive mother, but I was at an age that I had figured out the door locks) The lady came up to me and asked me to come to her house to play and I told her I needed to tell my mommy. She insured me that I did not and took my hand and my stroller and took me to her house. I was small, but I remember it vividly. She took my stroller and doll and put them in her storage room inside her front gate and locked me in a room upstairs for hours. It only took her two minutes to make me disappear. My mother was frantic, all of the neighbors and police were going door to door and they had helicopters out looking for me. One of the neighbors noticed that the woman that had taken me wouldn't say much and wasn't doing anything to help. The police came to the door again and heard me crying. They came in and took me out and I remember looking at my parents faces and feeling like I was going to be in so much trouble. I don't know what happened to her, what she was charged with, or what her intentions with me were. Maybe she planned to make me her other daughter and change my name. People are sick. All I can hope for this baby is that whoever took her didn't physically harm her in any way. I'm a mother now and the thought of someone taking your child or you losing your child is the worst nightmare I wouldn't wish on my biggest enemy. This world is a dark place.

[JoannaRuckenstein]

During my first years of high school, I used to have a chat with the female crossing guard in the mornings. One day she told me I could come to her house to play with her and her boyfriend. I went home that afternoon and asked my mom if I could go to her house one day. My mom said no. I was mad and asked her why. I believe she just said "because I said so". I understood years later why she made that instant decision. Who knows what could have happened. Also I used to always go grocery shopping with my mom and one time I remember asking her if I could wait in the car because I was tired. She said no I had to go in with her. It's funny, you're mad or annoyed at the time when you're young but when you get older you're like THANK GOD!!

[MCV-xgkc]

I find it odd that a neighbor heard a baby crying in the woods at night and didn’t call police. Strange case. I hope she lived,

[angelaberni]

My sister and brother in law years ago employed some men to work for them. One used to bring his toddler sometimes. He was extremely thin and frequently covered in bruises. When my sister asked him about the toddlers bruises he said that their babysitter said that he would frequently bump into things. She eventually killed him. Poor little darling and stupid ignorant parents. When she was found guilty she said that she would beat him up and killed him because he had everything that she couldn't give her baby that she had given up for adoption. Trust NO one with your children !!!

[heatherhammerquist]

My mother was a legal secretary & I will not talk to anyone in the judicial system without having a lawyer present. That is just common sense.

[tripri]

When I was a baby, my babysitter beat me up. When my mother got home, the babysitter left. My mom went to check on me and saw what had happened. She SHOULD have gotten a lawyer right away. She had no idea the police were going to try and pin it all on her. They would not let up, and did not even try to go after the babysitter. It is always good to get an attorney, no matter what. I don't know why you have to be "guilty" to get a lawyer.

[Estiallina]

I’m in disbelief that the parents wouldn’t take the minimal steps in safeguarding their family by closing the garage and locking doors at night, let alone using the alarm.

[Julzsavedandsetapart]

When someone took my baby out of my cart, I started hollering real quick! At that time they just started an alert at the store I was in. They locked doors immediately and security came running.
Some lady brought her forward and said she found her in the clothing rack!
My baby couldn't get out of the cart yet. She was a damn liar. But they didn't question her further.
I'm glad I got my baby back and left.

[rplayretro]

She said kids were running in and out all the time and that's why they didn't lock the doors. That's no excuse for not locking the doors at night.

[brichi]

So the mother said there had been a few attempted break ins a couple of weeks earlier yet none of the parents bothered to keep main doors locked? Absolutely astonished at the constant inconsistencies of the parents

[debrabaron]

If innocent, the parents should submit their DNA to a genealogy site. Their child or grandchild may do the same in the future.

[grandmaheidi]

To all of the people who have commented on how odd it is that the mother didn't cry any tears, I can give you two potential reasons why this may be the case: 1) She had been crying so much that she was, literally, all cried out. Or 2) she had been crying so much that she was given antidepressants, and those antidepressants made it so she was unable to cry tears. I have suffered from depression for the past 30 years or so, so I know from personal experience that both of these scenarios are possible, no matter how sad one might feel.