Against Their Will: Sadistic Kidnappers And The Courageous Stories Of Their Innocent Victims - Plot & Excerpts
On Wednesday, her birthday, Katie had to be back with her mother, Marilyn. The two women were embroiled in a custody battle over Katie. That Sunday, Aunt Linda was holding a pre-birthday party for her favorite niece. Katie called a family friend, forty-three-year-old building contractor Joe Esposito, and left a message on his answering machine, saying that they had saved him a piece of cake. At 11 a.m. on Monday, Esposito returned her call. He said he had taken the afternoon off work to have fun with her. Before the party, he had delivered a Barbie Dream House, but had been unable to stay. Some neighborhood kids would assemble it while they were out. At 1:20 p.m., Esposito arrived at Linda Inghilleri’s yellow-shingled house on Ocean Avenue and came in through the side door. Katie leaped into his arms. Esposito had been a longtime friend of both the Inghilleris and the Beers family. He was a small man—just five foot seven and slim—but they called him “Big John” to distinguish him from “Little John”
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