While Cruella is questioned about the theft, the police are unable to find anything against her, and Anita does not want to charge her, despite Roger's doubts. However, as the days go by, the police still suspect her, so she goes into hiding at her old mansion, Hell Hall at Suffolk, where Jasper and Horace and the puppies reside, proving that she was the mastermind behind the theft. She demands that the henchmen kill and skin the puppies for her that very night before furiously leaving the house. The next morning, Cruella learns that the puppies have escaped the house in the night, being rescued by Pongo and Perdita, and she and her henchmen begin a perilous search for the Dalmatians on the snowy country roads through Cruella's roadster and Jasper and Horace's beat up truck. Cruella furiously shouts at Jasper and Horace for reckless driving, despite her obviously worse driving skills. The next day, on Christmas Eve, Cruella, Jasper, and Horace realize that Pongo, Perdita and the puppies have fled to Dinsford and they begin searching there. While driving her car across town, she sees a long procession of black puppies walking past her into a van. Realizing at the last second that the puppies are the Dalmatians in disguise, she pursues the van in her car as it leaves town. Cruella tries to ram the van over a cliff, but instead collides with Jasper and Horace in their truck. Comically, Cruella and her henchmen tumble down a steep mountain and land in the cold snow in a tangle of automobile wreckage. Cruella angrily shouts at Jasper and Horace for their incompetence, while she cries over the loss of both her dear car and her beautiful dream coat and an annoyed Jasper tells her to shut up. The film featured a song, written by Mel Leven, using her name as the title, sung by the Dalmatians' owner Roger (Bill Lee), who holds the woman in contempt. The lyric begins with: "Cruella de Vil, Cruella de Vil. If she doesn't scare you, no evil thing will...", possibly foreshadowing the creepy enraged face Cruella puts on while chasing the van. Walt Disney's early vision for "The Rescuers" (1977) revolved around the kidnapping of a polar bear from a city zoo; writers considered reusing Cruella as the main antagonist (presumably driven by her desire for the bear's fur).