Just days after it first appeared in news reports, the unremarkable white house at 2207 Seymour Avenue in Cleveland was a tourist destination. Before that, it might as well have been invisible.
Three young women were held captive for a decade in the house, an eight-minute drive from where they were snatched. They broke free this week to find a world where technology has made it close to impossible to hide much of anything for very long.
"When these children were taken, Amber Alert was just coming on line," said Robert Lowery Jr. of the nonprofit National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. "It has grown much more effective. We can reach the public almost instantaneously."