Carol DaRonch's Report, 1974

Carol's initial report to police on November 8, 1974.

“...He said he was going to take me down to the police station. I asked him for his ID. He didn’t show me, he just kind of laughed like I was stupid or something. I felt kind of dumb, but then I told him again I wanted to see his ID. So he opened up his wallet and showed me a gold badge. I couldn’t see any writing or nothing on it. He put it back in his jacket, then we walked to his car.

He was really nice, polite, opened all the doors for me. I got in his Volkswagen and he told me “put your seat belt on” and I said no, I didn’t want to. Then he turned the car around and I started wondering why we were going that direction, it was the wrong way. I could tell he had been drinking.

Then he suddenly stopped the car and the tire kind of went up on the curb and came back down. I yelled “what are you doing??” and then I opened the car door and stuck my foot out. He grabbed my right arm and snapped the handcuffs on it. I started screaming and pulled away. Then he took a gun out of his jacket and said if I didn’t stop he’d shoot me in the head. But I kept screaming and pulling harder to get out of his car. I got outside of the car with him, he crawled across the passenger seat, and he was pulling me back inside and fighting with me. I was scratching at his arms and must have drawn blood because I wasn't hurt but I had blood on my hands.

He had a crowbar in his left hand and raised it into the air. I grabbed the crowbar so he couldn’t hit me with it. I don’t know how he didn’t hit me. He kept trying to push it down on me. Finally, I don’t know how I did it, but I tore away and ran out into the street. I saw a car and started waving and running towards it and they stopped…”