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Bernardo who had been out looking into backyards, hoping to find a victim. Bernardo lured Leslie back to his nearby car and took her to the house he shared with Homolka. Later that day, Leslie's friend telephoned the Mahaffy house to inquire about Leslie's well-being and explained the call that Leslie had made after discovering that she had been locked out, prompting Leslie's mother to start searching for Leslie. Finding no trace of her daughter, she eventually became concerned and contacted the police. When Mahaffy failed to phone home on her own birthday about two weeks later, her family was certain that she had not called them because she could not.
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and called a friend's house for permission to sleep over. Her friend told her no, and after a lengthy conversation that ended after 2:30 am, Mahaffy said she would go back home and wake up her own mother to get in the house.
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