Vi Ripken Kidnapper Sketch Released

ABERDEEN, MD - More than five years after the abduction and safe return of Violet "Vi" Ripken, police released a sketch showing what the suspect probably looks like.

The FBI and Aberdeen Police Department are still trying to find the man who forced Ripken, the mother of Orioles great Cal Ripken Jr., into her car at gunpoint on Tuesday, July 24, 2012.

He stopped at Walmart stores in the 6700 block of Chesapeake Center Drive in Glen Burnie and the 100 block of Carroll Island Road in Middle River, where police got a good look at him through surveillance.

The sketch released on Wednesday, Aug. 2, accounts for the age progression of the suspect, police said.

Ripken was found in her vehicle with her hands bound at 6:15 a.m. the morning after she was abducted, the car parked near her home on Clover Street in Aberdeen. Authorities said they did not have a motive.

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Ripken, who was 74 at the time of the abduction, is the widow of Cal Ripken Sr. and the mother of Ellen, Cal, Fred and Bill Ripken.

Cal Ripken Jr. is a member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and earned the nickname "IronMan" after he played in a record 2,632 consecutive games with the Baltimore Orioles.

Anyone with information about the case may contact Detective Divel at 410-272-2121, extension 132.

Sketches and photos courtesy of the Aberdeen Police Department.