How I Survived Being Abducted By A Stranger LADbible Stories

He wanted me to to drink glass of wine with him. He wanted me to have dinner with him or when he just said that don't want to. He started to harm me like he started to hit me or he started to strangulate me or to suffocate me. realized that should be doing what he he's telling me otherwise probably won't survive the evening. Where were you born and what was your life like growing up? grew up in Austria and still live in Austria and sports was always big part of my life. my mom is actually tennis coach and used to play tennis but then yeah started running and doing running competitions and started doing cycling and my my second race was proto race. like the the the team part of of of cycling that everyone in the team has its role and if one rider is winning all the team is winning. Also my husband he he has been professional cyclist and most of days after work he goes for an hour. He goes cycling for an hour and then we when he comes back then then go or if we can go together then we go cycling together. But we just enjoyed to to come out to work out and we also feel better afterwards and fresh again. When was kidnapped, it was 2019. one year before moved to Sturia, that's another part of Austria. And moved together with with my husband and yeah got my little son one 3 months before. It's very small town where we're living. it's very silent and idilic and yeah people keep telling me they can't believe that got kidnapped in the place where we live. What did your day look like before you were kidnapped? It was really warm summer day. So, was looking forward for my husband to come home and that can can go out and have like an hour for myself, go out and and and get fresh again. was riding and was already looking forward to be coming back because yeah, it the route was was was riding was only like there weren't probably five or six kilometers left until got home and then suddenly car hit me. The hit of the car wasn't all too too severe. fell like fell off my bike and probably had some some scratches but nothing serious. And then also moved to the car driver and the car driver moved towards me and really didn't think of anything bad. think it was just like an accident. And then suddenly just felt that he he was beating me and with wooden stick and he tried to to to hit my head and was holding my hands in front of my head so can save my head and yeah he actually broke my hands. The next thing is remember is that woke up in in car and yeah didn't really couldn't really realize what happened. The first moment when woke up thought it was was still dreaming probably. my arms are strapped behind my back and all can see is is is the dirt lying in the car and realized the car is driving and didn't really know what was happening. Pretty soon realized that it was kidnapping and yeah, realized that can't really move my hands. also realized that my arm was hurting lot and then tried to to to grab my my phone which usually is my my cycling jersey but it wasn't there and yeah at the same time worrying about myself cuz didn't know what was going on what's going to ne happen next. Yeah. Must have been really frightening in that moment. It was really frightening. Yes. The next thing that happened is that the kidnapper was driving me to his home. just tried to to think about where where could we go, but it it wasn't too far away. Like we were driving probably for 10 minutes and then he stopped and told me to be quiet. But couldn't talk anyway cuz he put like some kind of of of pattern around my my mouth so couldn't speak. Then he stopped, told me to be quiet and went away. And think he tried to fix my bike at that at that time. And then when he came back he he grabbed me, took me out of the car and pulled me into the house. my hands and my my legs they were strapped. So, couldn't really walk and he was just dragging me into the house. And then in the house, he put me into into wooden storage. closed the door and then think he he told me again to be be quiet and told me that he will be back in in minute. And then must have passed out cuz the next next thing remember is lying completely naked on on bed and looking through window and noticing that that it's getting dark already. thought it must be 8:00 in the evening or something already cuz it's getting it's getting dark. And went cycling at about 3:00 and just thought, there must be like hours have passed already." How did you feel when you woke up? What was going through your mind? most of the time was just kind of analyzing the situation, what was going on in the house. Like was thinking how could escape? was also thinking about what is the kidnapper doing? What does he want to do with me? Like is his intention to kill me? Does he want to don't know. do you abuse me? Does he Yeah. just wants to to keep me in his house for like long time. But also was thinking lot about home. like was worrying about about my son because he was just three months old and was breastfeeding usually. So that's the reason why was only away for maximum of an hour and now there were like four or five hours pass passing already. So thinking about what are they thinking? Are they looking for me? also remember there was helicopter that heard from the house and it really gave me hope. It gave me hope that people were looking after me that they were trying to find me. But in the next moment also realized it will be hard to find me cuz I'm somewhere in the house in the woods. How should someone find me there? Can you tell me what you remember of the house? The house of the kidnapper. It was really rundown. It was smelly. It was dark. there were there was rubbish lying around. it really wasn't nice. think also think the electricity wasn't working anymore cuz never saw any any light or something in there. And the only nice thing in the house were the flowers. Had you had much time to see the man who kidnapped you? What did you know about him? At first didn't know much about the kidnapper. Like in the car couldn't really see him. then when he pulled me out of the car could see him and yeah he was like would say bit chubby middle height doesn't look very special. He looked like yeah kind of normal man. yeah, and he was always when when he was talking to me, he was either giving giving me instructions like be quiet, don't move, you have to do what say, or he was being very polite to me. like he was talking to me like he was little child and was the yeah was the upgrown person. was the adult but at the same time he was very bossy and just wanted to like take me through the evening and gave me gave me instructions what to do. Like he wanted me to to drink glass of wine with him. he wanted me to have dinner with him or when he just said that don't want to he started to harm me like he started to hit me or he started to strangulate me or to suffocate me and yeah that's how also realized that should be doing what he he's telling me otherwise probably won't survive the evening. The kidnapper kind of wanted to take me through very bizarre version of date for him or with him. Like at first he wanted to have dinner with me. He wanted to drink wine with me. And then he told me to to go to the bathroom and to have bath with him. And yeah, as refused and said that don't want to, he grabbed me and pushed me into the into the basing gun and pushed my head under water like couple of times and for really long time and yeah, it was that long that was sure would be would be dying in that moment. moment. was sure like could see like this this movie that everyone is telling about the the pictures of my life, the happiest moments of my life. could just see them like movie and didn't think would survive this moment. Yeah. But then Yeah. He let off me. Can say that? Yeah. Yeah. lot of me and could grasp for for for air again and could breathe and yeah, the next thing remember is just getting out of this basing gun again and freezing and shaking all over my body. And yeah, think this this was probably the first time that the kidnapper was feeling kind of sorry for me. cuz then he said, can go back to to to the to the bedroom and he gave me blanket. And actually, was was lying in the bed with the blank blanket and the the kidnapper was coming towards me. And in that moment, kind of want to wanted to ease off the situation bit and then mentioned the flowers cuz was looking at those flowers all the time from the bed. And the moment when mentioned the flowers, they were like complete turning point. Kidnapped started to tell me how he was watering the flowers, that he used aquarium water for it and that he learned to be gardener and that he also works as gardener and that he told me about his whole life. He told me that he's he's yeah like badly wants to have some friends but no one likes him and he's always alone and that his parents died when he was very young and he grew up with his grandparents and yeah then also asked like why he kidnapped me and what he wanted to do with me and he told me that yeah, he didn't plan to kidnap me. He just planned to kidnap some woman and he wanted to have date with with woman and yeah saw me on the road and then decided to get me off the bike and take me with him. So it was just really bad luck that had. In the first moment, was just happy that he was talking and not hitting me or something like this. And yeah, then kept asking questions also when he told me about his family and he told me about holidays he had and that he was seeking for relationships and all kind of stuff. And then he also kept asking him about why me and what does he and yeah what are his plans for with me and what does he want to do with me. And he then told me that he never planned to kill me and that he just wanted to have nice evening with me and then would bring me back home. And he gave me his phone number and also asked me about my phone number which was really really awkward moment. He gave me piece of paper and wrote down my phone number which was kind of strange but yeah same moment was scared of writing down the wrong phone number cuz thought if tries to call me and it's the wrong number then he will get angry again or something. And then actually he came up with the idea that we could make the whole kidnapping look like an accident. And yeah, he would bring me home like soon and could tell the police that had an accident with with with deer and he found me lying on on the streets and now brings me home and on the next day could probably call him and help him to find some friends. For me, it was obviously very bizarre situation, but kind of also could started to get at least an understanding why he's doing that. yeah, also felt bit sorry probably for him, but yeah, actually just wanted to survive and get back home. Probably half an hour later or something, got dressed. yeah, he went away again, told me to just wait for him cuz he needs to get my bike. And then again, he tried to fix my bike and told me to get into the car. was sitting on the front like next to the driver's seat and yeah, was the whole drive home. was very scared cuz it wasn't far away from from my home like we were five or six kilometers away. And as soon as we went to the to the main road, realized that the car went into the wrong direction. Like told him where to live. told him where to go, but he wasn't driving this direction. And yeah, then was started panicking again, but couldn't really do anything. It was in the middle of the night, an empty road in the middle of kind of nowhere and thought he would kill me and and bury me there probably. that's my first thought. and the car stopped and he went out and just showed me this piece of land and and fields and yeah, think he just really just wanted to show me that this piece of land was like his piece of land and told me that he got it from from his grandparents and yeah, just wanted to show me this piece of land and then he got into the car again. was really relieved when he got back into the car and then started driving again and realized that he was really going into the right direction and was hoping that he would really bring me back home. But yeah, still the the whole car drive was really scary cuz could see lot of cars driving around. could see the police cars with with lights with torch lights like could clearly see they were all searching for me and was driving past sitting in the car of my kidnapper and there was nothing could do. And then what happened next? Yeah, the the kidnapper really drove me home. And as soon as the car got into our driveway and started getting slow, opened the door and ran towards her house door. And in that moment, my mother-in-law already opened the door cuz she could she could hear car. And was so happy to see her. Like ran into the house, shut the door, and was so relieved. was so relieved just to see my my mother-in-law. was Yeah, think it it was probably the the Yeah, the happiest of my life in that moment cuz realized I'm at home. I'm safe. I'm alive. can move my limbs. And that's what that was kind of everything that that mattered in that moment. Do you still remember that moment now? Yeah, can Yeah, can just remember moment of like really pure happiness. Pure happiness just noticing that I'm alive and that can live my life as as as it used to be and I'm not Yeah, like knew my son was at home. knew could watch him grow up. knew could wake up next day. yeah. And were there points that you didn't think that was going to happen? No. think during the kidnapping had like three scenarios in in in my in my mind. One was he's going to kill me. the second one he was going to hold me in his house for long time. Probably someone will find me one day. And the third scenario was, yeah, could get out of this situation and would be free again. But think the first scenario of being killed was the the one that was that was the most most probable. How long had you been kidnapped for, Natalie? yeah, went cycling at about 3:00 in the afternoon and got back home at about 1:00 in the night. So it must have been like 8 hours that I've been kidnapped. yeah, think it was like blacked out few couple of times. So there were lot of time periods that don't have any memory of. In the days after returning home, how were you? What were you feeling? And what was that experience like after having bit of time to process what had happened to you? Soon after the police also the the ambulance and ambulance came and they took me to the hospital then. So yeah, spent the the first time or the first period of time after my kidnapping was in hospital. yeah, also my my headbone was was broken. That's also why was kept passing out couple of times. Actually, the first really bad flashback was just couple after after my kidnapping. was waking up in hospital and there's like newspaper man coming into the room and he looked exactly like the kidnapper and was so scared. was yeah getting out of bed trying to hide in in in that last corner of the room, but he just wanted to bring me the newspaper and yeah, that's one thing that happened couple of times in the next few weeks or months probably. My husband helped me lot through this time cuz he just said or he just told me that have two options. either let the fear control me or try to control the fear. And thought it was pretty hard at this time that he said it's it's kind of my choice and thought it was unfair that he didn't understand that couldn't do anything about my my my about the fear about my scarce. but at the same time it really helped me cuz started thinking about it the same way and said okay have to try and control the fear and have to try to every day tried to get one step further like at first day was just going for walk and the second day tried to go grocery shopping the third day tried to go for walk in the woods and yeah so with every day one situation That was scary the day before became became normal. What happened to your kidnapper? the kidnapper got yeah caught by the special force of the police and then think half year later or something was the the court about the the process about the kidnapping and he got sentenced 7 years in institutions for for for from for mentally abnormal law breakers. Then he starts his seven years of prison. So the kidnapper, he's schizophreniac and he also wasn't showing any any grief like in court or before court. He said he he didn't really understand understood what he what what he has done. So he said everything is fine cuz he brought me back home and he didn't kill me. So kind of could understand why he's done what he's done. to me because he was really lonely person and didn't know how to help himself otherwise. would say at the moment don't think much about the kidnapper anymore. at first it was like it was little bit of mixture of being angry because of what he's done to me but at the same time feeling bit sorry for him. How is your life now? What does your life look like 6 years on from this experience? would say my life is kind of normal again. Like yeah, enjoy cycling again, which was long way to get there cuz yeah, at the beginning kind of forced myself to go cycling cuz knew actually like it, but didn't enjoy it at all. But now can say then enjoy cycling again. enjoy sports again. I'm not afraid of meeting people. think what learned about myself is that like the little thing that used little things that used to stress me are probably not worth stressing about. Like just try to enjoy every day. can also give others little bit of hope or make them think about their way of living. probably maybe they can can learn to that yeah it's they shouldn't take it for granted to just live and wake up every day and shouldn't be so grumpy maybe. Can make one request? do you mind though if you you could be shot in the head and they then discussed this and the Müller another Müller was discussing and they said yeah yeah okay you we'll grant you that so then it's like my god so am being executed