I Found Two Babies in a Cardboard Box on Route 66—Then Their Missing Mother’s Warning Named the Man Asking to Take Them Home

She passed it, continued to a place where she could turn safely, and eventually came back along the same stretch.

By then, the emergency vehicles were there.

“Were you driving when you took the picture?” I asked.

“I had pulled off farther along.

I was stopped.”

“Why take it?”

“There was something odd about a car sitting there with someone outside it.

I thought it might be a breakdown.”