VAL VERDE : Had No Chance to Flee Abductor, Woman Testifies
A Val Verde real estate agent, who said she was kidnaped June 29 while showing a house to a Michigan man, testified Thursday that she had no chance to flee while she and the defendant shopped for camping gear.
Paula Harrington, 27, said that most of the time she was with accused abductor Timothy Shue, her legs were tied with an elastic bandage.
She said that while shopping at a Sears and a sporting goods store near the California-Arizona border, she was untied, but had to carry the gear they bought.
Shue’s lawyer asked Harrington why she did not run or knock over a display to attract attention in either store, where customers and clerks could have aided her.
Shue, a convicted robber who authorities say is a serial rapist, is accused of kidnaping her at gunpoint from a vacant house in Val Verde.
Two days later, a motel maid in Gila Bend, Ariz., found Harrington tied in bedsheets. Shue, 38, was arrested that day in Ogden, Utah.
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