The hard part of any abduction is thorough planning and preparation. The first thing that most sexual predators foul up on is obsessing over someone that they know and then kidnapping that person the first chance they get. Law enforcement agencies usually solve these abductions if not in a few hours, then in time, but they do solve them. The intelligent predator chooses his prey first because of his preferences (maybe she looks like someone he desires) but then he makes his plans according to her weaknesses.
A successful abduction requires a tremendous amount of time, study, research, planning, and timing. The process starts with identifying a likely victim. I personally like them in their late teens and early twenties, petite, and perky looking with a quiet personality. The next step involves seeing about the victim's relationships. A single woman who lives alone is the best target, but you can work well with a roommate, too, if you plan well. In the case of a single woman who lives alone you can usually just smooth talk your way into her apartment/house, overcome her and secure her, and then pack up enough of her clothes and personal effects that it makes it look like she just cleared out to anyone who comes looking. Leaving a small supply of drugs and paraphernalia behind is all it takes to dissuade any sympathy for the victim from law enforcement if they investigate. One look at the drugs and they could care less where your victim went.
Roommates can actually be useful since they usually don't know your victim any better than you do. My favorite tactic is to get your victim on a mailing list for some freaky cult by sending a few hundred bucks cash in her name to them. The roommate will inevitably see the ocean of junk mail that will follow along with possible home visits and phone calls. Then when you do the deed the roommate will tell the boys in blue about the cult and they'll just assume that your victim went with them willingly. Even if they do go check out the cult they won't believe the cultists when they tell the cops the truth that they haven't seen your victim. Haven't you ever wondered why the cops went nosing around at Waco in the first place? Well, now you know who sent them there and why.
But what happens when you screw up? That's what this story is about.
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I had performed my usual due diligence in planning, studying, and lining up my victim and tonight was the night I'd make my move. Tonight she'd be home late after work like she was every Thursday night and I'd catch her in the parking lot when she parked in her reserved parking space. The darkness would be my partner in crime.
"Right on time." I said to the air as she showed up on cue.
It was like a ballet as I opened the side doors to the van and then spun to catch her face in the formaldehyde-soaked cloth. After a very brief struggle she passed out and I loaded her into the van, trussed her up, and secured her wrists and ankles to the floor tie-downs before getting the rubber-ball gag strapped into place. The last touch was the stocking cap I pulled down over her face. In the pervasive darkness I had to do this all by feel, but I had it all done in the time I'd practiced so many nights before…right in this same parking lot.
One hundred and eighty-four seconds after she'd parked her car I opened her apartment door and walked to her bedroom, pulling out a large garbage bag as I walked. Once in her room I dumped the contents of her drawers into the bag and then made my way to the bathroom. Her combs and makeup went in first, followed by her selection of make-up and then her assortment of medications. I chuckled to myself as I dropped the pills and creams into the bag and then turned for the door, locking it behind myself as I left.
Four hundred and twenty-two seconds had elapsed since I started and I was now behind the wheel and driving out of the parking lot. At six hundred seconds even I started up the onramp to the interstate freeway and began the long trip home.
I heard her start to murmur right around St. George, Utah and I turned to see her feebly straining against the restraints. About twenty miles later I smelled the strong scent of urine and turned around to see the stain on her jeans and I just shook my head. I was going to have to steam clean the interior of the van after this anyway.
It was another four hours before I got to the house and hit the remote for the basement garage. The door rolled up and then I clicked again as I shut the engine off and the door slid closed with a certain finality that made my victim flinch. They always know what's going to happen when they hear that door close. I don't know what it is about the sound that the door makes, it's just like any other remote control door, yet every one of my girls flinches at the sound of its' closing.
I took a look at the mess she'd made in the van and decided that I'd best get to it before taking a breather. Ten hours of driving with a cargo space full of felony gets to you, you know.
"Come on, sweetheart, time to get you out of those clothes and settled in."
She froze as I said the words. Notice I said she froze. Victims always tremble and struggle when I first speak to them. This one froze. I realized instantly that she knew me and that I knew her. Soon enough I'd know who she was, but first there was work to be done. I unlocked the restraints that held her to the tie-downs in the van and stood her up to lead her to her new home, a rather comfortable apartment in the basement of my house.
My house has it's own story. A survivalist back in the 1980's built the place with a secret, long-term bomb shelter in the basement for the nuclear war that never came. After he died in a confrontation with the local sheriff I bought the whole place for a song at the tax assessor's auction and have lived here quite nicely the last eight years. When I'd first found the bomb shelter behind a false basement wall I just used it for a guest room for the rare relative who'd make their way out here to the boonies. It was my then-twelve year old step-niece who one day pointed out that with the steel reinforced three-foot thick walls and the 2800-pound blast door the shelter could easily be mistaken for a prison cell. Looking at my brothers' stepdaughter as she planted the cell concept in my head gave me a very interesting idea. I never saw her again to thank her for that great idea since her mother divorced my brother not long after and then moved away without a trace.
A little creative welding soon had the inside of the blast door covered with a quarter-inch thick sheet of stainless steel, which denied any occupant access to the locking mechanism of the door. The door mechanism was still easily accessed from the outside and a very clever magnetic key the original owner created as a failsafe would release you from the inside if you should happen to be in there when the door closed. The magnetic key was hidden in plain sight holding an old calendar on the refrigerator door inside the shelter…, which was now a cell.
Then came the part about putting my plan into action. I'm a big believer in planning and I figured that the best way to plan a successful crime was to first study how everyone else had screwed up his or her crimes. I studied bank robberies, embezzlements, and several other types of crimes and I came away with a few conclusions:
1.Failed crimes are usually committed within twenty miles of the criminals' home.
2.Criminals almost always get away with the first crime, but they get cocky after that and lose their edge.
3.Most criminals choose victims they know.
4.Most criminals fail to plan their crimes and the majority of those who do plan their crimes fail to execute their plans.