James Addison

James Addison was a former neighbor of the Clark family. He had loaned camping supplies to the Clarks and recommended places to camp. On the day Holly Clark, age seven, disappeared, Addison went to a hospital and reported that he had been bitten by a wild dog in the woods more than one hundred miles away. The dog bite fractured a bone and removed some muscle tissue. Addison was permanently disabled.

After the police learned that Holly was still alive, Hank Griffin and Sergeant Wu questioned Addison about why he drove one hundred miles to seek treatment for a dog bite. At the police station, Addison heard mention of his property being found near the surviving Holly Clark and yelled that she had bitten him. Later, Holly identified Addison out of a line-up as the man who had abducted her.