On a sweltering summer day in New Hampshire, a call came in. A baby was trapped inside a car at a Wal-Mart parking lot. No time to waste.
Keene Police Lt. Jason Short raced to the scene. What he saw confirmed the worst—tiny feet sticking out from under a blanket.
No crying. No movement. Just silence. The car was sealed tight. The windows, rolled up. The heat? Unbearable.
Lt. Short didn’t hesitate. He smashed the glass. Every second mattered. He reached in, heart pounding, and pulled what he thought was a lifeless baby from the backseat.
His instincts kicked in—he tried to breathe life into the child. But something was wrong. The lungs didn’t expand.
The mouth didn’t move. Then the truth hit him. This wasn’t a baby. It was a doll. A frighteningly realistic, eerily silent, silicone doll.
The emergency call was canceled. The shock, however, lingered. Later, Officer Short found the doll’s owner at a nearby Super Cuts salon.
Carolynne Seiffert was getting her hair done, unaware of the chaos in the parking lot. She explained everything.
