A desperate race against time
And when the police were unable to find the girls inside the house, they began frantically searching for them throughout the neighborhood. But they had to find them fast before it was too late. They were in a desperate race against time.
Alone in the harsh cold weather
The police took with them search dogs to comb the neighborhood for the twins. They even tried the daycare center a few blocks away after Marlene and Thomas told them that the girls might have tried to go there. They also tried peeking into places along the way where they thought the twins might have sheltered themselves from the harsh, cold weather.
