Feb. 08--REPORTING FROM PRESCOTT, Ariz. -- Little by little, family by family, word began filtering out in this small town nestled against the craggy foothills north of Phoenix.
It began in 2013 as an iron-clad secret tightly held by the parents of an American aid volunteer in Syria: Their daughter was missing. For months, they said nothing.
But in August, Islamic State militants posted a video online of their beheading of American journalist James Foley. Other gruesome slayings followed. The worried family began revealing the basics to a small coterie of friends who have also lived in Prescott for generations.
