On February 12, 1993, mother-of-one Denise Bulger was inside a butcher’s store in a shopping centre in Liverpool, northern England, when she let go of her toddler’s hand to pay for some chops. By the time she finished, her 2-year-old boy, James Bulger, was no longer by her side. After a quick scan of the area in the Strand Shopping Centre, the desperate mum informed security her child was missing, then continued a frantic search of her own throughout the centre.
“Everywhere I looked I prayed that I would see my boy’s face peeking out from under a fitting-room
