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You carry jumper cables, a spare tire, a first aid kit, extra blankets, flashlights and a fire extinguisher in your car. You wear your seatbelt. You buy homeowners insurance, medical insurance, vehicle insurance, uninsured motorists insurance, and emergency tow insurance. So why not carry the best-available tool of self-defense?

These women were all lucky. Most abductees don't get to come home.

Akron, Oct. 21, 2004: Woman jumps out of car, escapes captor
Maj. Tim Escola of the Jackson Township Police Department said the woman left the Westfield Shoppingtown Belden Village at 4:55 p.m. and noticed she was being followed. At her car, a man showed a handgun and forced her into the passenger's side.

The man started driving the car out of the mall lot when the woman's cell phone rang, Escola said. The woman told the abductor she had to take the call, and when she leaned over to answer the phone, swiftly unlocked the door and jumped out.

Fremont, October 15, 2004: Woman survives armed robbery/kidnapping
Police said a clerk at PDK's Drive-Thru, 3724 N. Ohio 53 in Rice Township, was accosted about noon Thursday by a man armed with a pistol.

The man entered the establishment and told her to close and lock all the doors and open the cash register. When she was not able to do so because the electricity was turned off, the man took her keys and purse and began to force her into her car. After entering the passenger side, he handed her the keys, saying he would not hurt her but she had to drive.

At the yield sign at County Road 99 and 170, the victim put the car in park and got out of the vehicle, saying he could have the car but she would not go with him.

As she walked away, the man yelled that he had her driver's license and that he knew where to find her. When she turned around again, he had taken the gun from his pants.

The woman continued walking in the opposite direction, and when she heard the car take off, she ran through a field to the residence of a local man who called police.

Millersburg, October 12, 2004: Authorities searching for abduction suspect
A 55-year-old Prairie Township woman said she was riding her bicycle on Township Road 323 about 7:20 p.m. when a car stopped in the middle of the road, the driver got out and asked for directions to Berlin and then grabbed her from behind.

She said the man repeatedly said he would not hurt her as he dragged her to his car and forced her into the front passenger seat, then climbed over her into the driver's seat and sped off.

According to her statement, the abductor sped south on Township Road 323, made a U-turn and drove back toward County Road 320. She said she escaped when he slowed to cross a narrow bridge, and she was able to open the door and jump out.

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