Life is changed for family of Rainn Peterson

NORTH BLOOMFIELD

For Dora Mae and Richard Peterson and their great-granddaughter Rainn Peterson, life is starting to return to normal – a little over a week after Rainn’s 48-hour disappearance made news as far away as England.

Rainn, 26 months, returned to the Peterson home from the hospital last week and could be found Tuesday running around the house and chasing her brother Lucian, 3, just like before.

“She’s a very active little girl,” Dora Mae said. “She’s a tough cookie. She can beat her brother up, but she’s also so kind and gentle.”

One thing that has changed is the level of security at the Peterson home: new locks on all of the doors to prevent people from entering or leaving, and motion sensors that indicate whenever someone is approaching the house.

“You have to have a key to get in, and you have to have a key to get out,” Dora Mae said.

The extra security is designed to prevent a repeat of Rainn’s disappearance, even though the Petersons and investigators working on the case still don’t know why she disappeared or whether anyone else was involved.

Read more of the latest in the case in Wednesday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.