Kidnapping of Sally Horner

Sally Horner
Photograph of Sally Horner taken in 1948, by her captor, Frank La Salle
Born
Florence Horner

(1937-04-18)April 18, 1937
Trenton, New Jersey, U.S.
DiedAugust 18, 1952(1952-08-18) (aged 15)
Woodbine, New Jersey, U.S.
Known forKidnapping victim

Florence "Sally" Horner (April 18, 1937 – August 18, 1952) was an American girl who, at the age of 11, was abducted by serial child molester Frank La Salle in June 1948 and held captive for twenty-one months. Posthumous research has shown that Vladimir Nabokov drew on the details of her case in writing his novel Lolita, although Nabokov consistently denied this during his life.

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