Just before 1 a.m. on September 14, 1990, Dan Dreifort called 911 to report that his girlfriend, Lisa Pruett, may have been kidnapped from the corner of Lee and South Woodland in Shaker Heights.
This call sets in motion an unsolved mystery that is now 30 years old.
Though I’ve reported on this case for years, this is the first time I have heard the tape. To me, it sounds like Dan is genuinely concerned and acting like a typical teen would in that stressful situation.
Odd that he doesn’t seem stressed at all. Very, very calm. Filtering out the noise shows a very calm almost prepared Dan Dreifort on the line. 30 years ago was a different world. Kids were not as aware of these types of things back then.
I don’t think he sounds calm. He’s breathing like someone nervous. He’s short of breathe. I wouldn’t sound any different. I would have called before waking my parents also. He would have known the path she had to take to get to his house, why kill her right out front?
Why does he say he doesn’t know where she lives?? He had been to her house before.
Maybe he just didn’t know the address.
12:25. 20 feet away. Story being told very chronologically. He sounds incredibly calm, measured and mature for a teen who believes that his girlfriend has just been kidnapped and hasn’t even woken his parents yet.
I am listening to True Crime Garage on this case. They are reading out the detective interviews verbatim. All these kids, with just one or two exceptions, sound “measured and mature for a teen.” Certainly much more so than I would have at that age or any of my teen kids and their friends.