The Region - News from March 9, 1987

Less than 24 hours after her mother made an emotional plea to surrender, 16-year-old kidnaping suspect Dana Jennifer O’Hair telephoned police from a pay phone in Garden Grove and gave herself up. “All she said was, ‘I want to turn myself in,’ ” Garden Grove Police Lt. Scott Hamilton said. Dana had been the object of a search since the Thursday morning disappearance of 3-year-old Jennifer Lend Ruengsri from a Huntington Beach apartment. The child was found unharmed Friday, wandering alone near Anaheim’s Sage Park, and was reunited with her mother. Hamilton said he is uncertain whether Dana’s surrender was prompted by her hearing or reading about her mother’s plea. On Saturday, Dana’s mother, a 41-year-old Anaheim woman who declined to give her name but allowed herself to be photographed by the news media at a news conference, tearfully pleaded for Dana to “come home.”