{{Infobox person | name = Florence Sally Horner | image = Florece_Sally_Horner.jpg | image_size = | alt = Studio portrait of Florence Sally Horner sitting on a swing. | caption = Undated photograph of Florence Sally Horner |birth_date = |death_date = |death_place = Woodbine, New Jersey |known = Kidnapping victim}} Florence Sally Horner (April 18, 1937 August 18, 1952) was a girl abducted by serial child molester Frank La Salle in 1948. It is believed that Vladimir Nabokov drew on the details of her case in writing his novel Lolita.Abduction In March 1948, 10-year-old Horner attempted to steal a five-cent notebook from a Woolworths in Camden, New Jersey. Frank La Salle, a 50-year-old mechanic who had recently served a prison sentence for molesting girls, caught her stealing. He told her that he was an FBI agent, and threatened to have her sent to a reform school unless she reported to him periodically. In June 1948, he abducted Horner. La Salle instructed her to tell her mother he was the father of two of her school friends and she had been invited on their family vacation to the Jersey Shore. He spent 21 months traveling with her in different U.S. states. According to charges later brought against La Salle, it was during this period that he raped her repeatedly. While attending school in Dallas, Texas, Horner confided her secret to a friend. Later she escaped from La Salle, and phoned her sister at home, asking her to send the FBI. When arrested on March 22, 1950, in San Jose, California, La Salle claimed that he was Horner's father. However, authorities in New Jersey confirmed that Horner's real father had died seven years previously. La Salle was tried, convicted, and sentenced to 30 to 35 years in prison under the Mann Act. Death Horner died in a car accident near Woodbine, New Jersey, on August 18, 1952. As the Associated Press reported on August 20, 1952: "Florence Sally Horner, a 15-year-old Camden, N.J., girl who spent 21 months as the captive of a middle-aged morals offender a few years ago, was killed in a highway accident when the car in which she was riding plowed into the rear of a parked truck." Cultural references Critic Alexander Dolinin proposed in 2005 that Frank La Salle and Florence Sally Horner were the real life prototypes of Humbert Humbert and Dolores "Lolita" Haze from Lolita