Dispatcher Recounts Kidnapping Rescue Call

LaGrange County (Ind.) sheriff’s dispatcher Heather Lock fielded a 911 call from a woman who had been abducted by a convicted murderer who escaped from state prison. Lock quickly recognized the peril the woman was in, told her to escape the and lock herself in a gas station restroom, and stayed on the line until officers arrived. The escapee, Michael Elliott, had left by then, but was captured the next day. Read another news account of the call here, and listen to part of the call here.