Lakeville teen describes the day she and her sister went missing

The lights in a Hastings courtroom dimmed, and Samantha Rucki appeared on four flat-screen monitors. She sat in a small conference room, her head slumped down, cheek resting on her hand, her eyes pointed down to a table as a court reporter sat on her right and a judge to her left. Her voice was barely audible when she confirmed her name.

“The last time I saw my mother,” she said Thursday, “was a long, long time ago.”

It was the first time in more than three years that her mother, Sandra Grazzini-Rucki, saw her daughter. From a courtroom a floor below, she watched, stone-faced.

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