sc side 1 Flashcards
V: Shae, I’m Agent Vo. This is Agent Mitchell. Are you okay?
Yeah. I guess.
V: I’m so sorry you went through this. Can you tell us what happened?
I was on the beach. This man came up to me with a gun. He threw a bag over my head. Zip-tied my hands. Dragged me onto a boat…
M: What he look like?
I don’t know. He was wearing a ski mask. Then he took me to some room. I was handcuffed to a pole.
M: You’re doing great, Shae. How’d you escape?
I didn’t. He let me go. When he heard my mom on the news saying she’d never stop looking for me. (she sips her water) Thank God I’m alive.
V: Can you describe the boat?
I had a bag over my head.
V: I know, but were you inside a cabin or…?
Outside. It wasn’t that big. It rocked around a lot, and I could hear the water right next to me.
V: You okay to keep going?
After ten… maybe fifteen minutes, we got to a dock. He put me in the trunk of a car, and said he’d kill me if I tried to escape.
M: He have perfect English? Accent?
Accent. He was Portuguese. We drove for what felt like an hour or so. Then I heard a garage door. He took me up some stairs.
M: How many flights? Could you tell?
Just one. And there was this beep at the top… like when you use a key card at a hotel. Every once in a while, I heard a train pass by. I tried counting to see if it was on some sort of schedule, but I was so nervous that I kept losing track.
V: Anything else about the room you were in?
When he let me have a bathroom break, I’d take off my blindfold. There was this purple, heart-shaped jacuzzi. And- oh, yeah- I hid my wristband from the party in the toilet tank- in case anyone ever needed it for evidence.
M: You were hanging out with this man?
Yeah. Nico.
M: His real name is Duarte D’Souza.
Okay.
M: Was he involved?
No. He’s who ditched me on the beach.
M: How soon after Duarte left did the kidnapper abduct you?
Pretty quick. A minute maybe?
V: Shae, I have to ask, and if you don’t feel comfortable answering then just tell me, but did your kidnapper touch you in a way that-
He never did anything like that.
