kathy had been a cab driver in
hagerstown for three years
she was a grandma of eight children
she still wanted to have time with her
family during the day
so she chose to be on graveyard shift
in hagerstown where there's a criminal
element that most people
don't see the dark side
when kathy went and picked up the rider
in waynesboro
he was just walking down the street
he got in
and he changed where he was going
he went up to the door
and they wouldn't let him in
she heard the girl holler out
don't shoot me
please don't shoot me
9-1-1 what's the address of your
emergency
i'm at grace church road i went to
williamsburg i'll bring this man down to
this address
and now he's trying to force his way
into a house
i'm afraid to move my vehicle
you have your doors locked
it's open i'm in a van you need to make
yourself safe okay even if you've got to
drive away from there to get away from
him and close that and lock that door
do that for me now please okay wait a
minute
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you doing okay i'm behind my hands
is she in the vehicle yeah
when i heard him get back in the van
that's when kathy went from being a
witness to a crime to a potential victim
of a crime
we didn't know whether he murdered the
woman or not
there was no barrier between her
and this guy
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okay let me ask you yes or no questions
does he have a weapon
i have no clue
okay is he telling you to take him back
to waynesboro
yeah okay i want to find out how you're
going to be going back so we can get a
police officer out there to intercept
you
okay um
brittany i think i'll probably go back
the same way i came down
which is 81.
she spoke to me as if
i was an employee back at the taxi cab
company
and that's when
the light came on for me i was playing
that role
okay all right listen we're going to
send you a different way
i need to stay on marvinsville road
we're going to have officers come out
and intercept you okay
okay
okay can you confirm what cab company
without letting him know
well you know that a1 and downtown taxi
merged right right
34 is due highway
hey still with me oh yeah
can you go to the sheets in long meadow
tell them you need gas or something is
that possible
no
he's not going to take that huh
no i actually filled up before i left
hagerstown
you want me to bring you anything to
drink from mcdonald's
yeah yeah i'd love to bring you yes give
me a happy meal from mcdonald's a happy
meal and you're going to the mcdonald's
out on morgan's avenue right
yeah
that's a fantastic idea
females going to fasted
we were trying to keep him in maryland
once he got across the pennsylvania
state line
we can't pursue him up
you there okay
yeah i'm fine okay all right
i'm going to ask you a couple questions
here and we're going to try to keep it
to yes and no answers
you okay with that yeah
um young earl well i can't do that is he
a young man
yeah okay
does he have any kind of blood or
anything on his clothes from the house i
don't know
no i'm not trying to set you up
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yeah i'd like to get um
two large sweet peas
so
oh okay then don't worry about it
hold on i'll give you a breakfast order
okay
oh okay wait a minute wait a minute he's
got a breakfast
let's get a couple big breakfast orders
okay
if you can do that okay big breakfast
is there an officer out there to drive
through yeah
okay i want you to get out that day and
run
turn the thing off grab the keys and get
out of it all right
are you out of the vehicle
are you out of the vehicle yeah are you
with the police
the policeman is trying to take him down
and having problems
he's fighting with coughs
there's somebody else here
the policeman
run away
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get away as far as you can i'll stay
with you alright
74 washington county
get down
he's not even in
you did custody fantastic job
all right
okay
i'm not taking him to waynesboro
the cops are going to get him here
i didn't know it at the time there was a
butcher knife in the back seat somewhere
between 10 and 12 inches long
if the passenger had figured out i was
talking to 911
have no doubt he would have used that on
me
we don't know if he was
on any mind-altering drugs
but it appeared that he was on a mission
after this incident happened i went back
to work the next day
and there are times that i get very
scared at night
but
i'm not going to stop doing something
just because it scares me
i'm not ever going to allow
another passenger take control of me
in that cab
you