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For their coup-de-grace crime, Davis and Riley sexually assaulted the child while driving backroads along the Kansas-Missouri border.

They then planned to end their lives. Each swallowed a handful of pills, chased by several doses of methamphetamine.

Oddly, they then decided the child deserved mercy.

It was widely reported in the media that Davis and Riley had surrendered. That was not the case.

Davis' Romeo-and-Juliet plan was to drop the girl off outside her home in Arcadia, then race away along country roads to a remote spot, where they would drift off to sleep while embracing and die of overdoses.

But a snag developed when they got lost and couldn't find their way back to Arcadia to drop the girl.

At 4:40 p.m., about five hours after the child was abducted, Davis used his cell phone to call 911 in Barton County, Kan. In the drug-addled conversation, he tried to ask an operator to help him determine his location, explaining that he wanted to drop a child off at a friend's house but was lost on a dirt road.

The operator passed the phone to Deputy Vincent Ashworth, who spent more than 20 minutes on the phone with Davis and Riley.

Riley explained that they were in the process of committing suicide by drug overdose but wanted to spare the child's life.

"Why are you trying to kill yourself?" Ashworth asked.

Riley replied, "We've done a lot of bad things, and we don't want to be caught by anybody. We're gonna end this before anybody else gets to us."

Riley repeatedly hollered at Davis, who was nodding off.

"She kept yelling at him, 'You need to wake up! You need to stay on the road!" Ashworth told "America's Most Wanted."

Riley finally managed to read the name on a road sign, which placed them somewhere along an eight-mile-long dirt road.

Law enforcers raced in that direction just as Deputy Ashworth heard a metallic thud through the phone. Davis had fallen asleep and run the truck into a ditch.

Barton County Sheriff Shannon Higgins arrived to find Riley behind the wheel and Davis outside trying to push the truck. The little girl was sitting in the truck of a farmer who happened to pass by and offered to help.

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Even being caught by the IDAM did not stop Dayan from robbing Azur again. On 14.12.1966, Brosh wrote (Azur administrative file): �I was informed by local kids that the digging is performed by Moshe Dayan...on Friday afternoons and Saturdays. By the way, this is in the same place where I once saw Dayan excavating�. On 20 March 1968 Dayan was injured by a landslide during robbing of a grave at Azur. Dayan himself wrote about it, since he was hospitalized for three weeks and the story could not be held in secret (Dayan 1976:337-342; Dayan 1978:132; Dayan Y. 1985:195-197; Teveth 1969:262-267; 1972:320-321, 356; Elon 1971:284; Dayan R. and Dedman 1973:224; Falk 1985:262-265; Amitai 1998:8; Slater 1991:304-305). It could not be kept in secret because of rare combination of circumstances. The failure of the digging at Azur happened to coincide with the failure of the IDF at the Karameh operation in Jordan; Dayan went digging on the same day, and people wondered about Dayan�s decision to go digging rather than supervising the operation. On this matter see also Amitai (1998:8).

Ido Dissentchnik knew that Dayan was injured during looting at Azur when he arrived, as a journalist, to the hospital to interview Dayan. Dissentchnik phoned Avraham Biran, head of the IDAM, and asked him: �Are you going to file a complaint against him? Biran, having heard that Dayan might be dying, retorted: Do you think that my only worry is to charge the defense minister with something like this?� (Slater 1991:305-306).

Even after this accident, Dayan returned again to Azur to see if anything is left, as he proudly tells (Dayan 1976:342; Ben-Ezer 1997:222).� In 1975, a short notice [Jerusalem Post 1975:3, author not named] appeared about a left-wing MK named Dov Zakin, who accused Dayan for carrying out illicit digs at Azur in April 1975, taking a large quantity of vessels from �a Canaanite period tomb�. He asked Aharon Yadlin, then Minister of Education responsible over the IDAM, to �probe the allegations and take steps if needed�. Yadlin, it seems, never took steps against Dayan (cf. H. Bar�am 2001:43).

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But the Lowell-inspired idea of an Earthlike Mars proved more durable. At the dawn of the space age, Mars was considered to have an atmosphere about a tenth the density of Earth's, water ice polar caps that waxed and waned with the seasons, and an annual "wave of darkening" that was often interpreted as growing plant life.

In the 1960s, observations from Earth and flyby spacecraft signalled the beginning of the end for Lowell's Mars. The Mariner 4, 6, and 7 missions returned images of a moonlike, heavily-cratered surface. The atmosphere was found to be almost pure carbon dioxide (CO2), only a hundredth the density of Earth's, and the polar caps proved to be almost entirely frozen CO2. The first global views of Mars, returned by the Mariner 9 orbiter in 1972, revealed that the planet was far more complex than the earlier flyby missions had shown, with huge volcanoes, an enormous canyon system, and evidence of running water at some point in the past. But the wave of darkening was shown to be the result of seasonal redistribution of windblown dust on the surface, the atmosphere's composition and density were confirmed, and most of the evidence for an Earthlike Mars was swept away.

But despite all these blows, the possibility of organisms on the surface could not yet be ruled out. For this reason, in 1976 the Viking landers carried a sophisticated instrument to look for possible life forms on the martian surface.