Seconds of Hope: Who Abducted the Luhk Sisters?

Two girls in Saipan vanish from their bus stop, launching a mystery that even baffles the FBI.

Maleina Luhk (left) and her older sister Faloma (right) have been missing for a decade (source).

Saipan is located in the western Pacific Ocean–north of Papua New Guinea and east of The Philippines. It’s the largest of the 14 islands in the Northern Mariana Islands and has the largest population as well. Nearly 50,000 call Saipan their home, and everyone knows the details surrounding the tragic mystery of Faloma and Maleina Luhk– two young sisters who disappeared while waiting for the morning bus.

After ten years of no answers or clues, many fear the fates of Faloma and Maleina Luhk will forever be a mystery. Will the community ever get answers? Parents agonized over the thought of the abductor striking again–was anyone on the island safe?

Faloma Luhk (left), and her younger sister, Maleina (right) (source).

It began the morning of Wednesday, May 25, 2011, as the sun rose over the village of As Teo. It arrived just in time for 10-year-old Faloma Luhk and her 9-year-old sister Maleina to make their routine journey to their bus stop, which sat only 300 feet away from their home. The two girls attended Kagman Elementary School and were excited for the…