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lin 9mm carbine. About 4 a.m. on Good Friday, April 1, he broke into Ms. Hart’s parents’ home and kidnapped her and the boy.
“I knew it was going to happen,” Ms. Hart said. “He had talked about this for the last two years. His friends said all he wanted was his son. But after running for six months last year, I just couldn’t do it anymore.”
Leaf - or no one
Ms. Hart said that police in Connecticut were told that Leafs plan was to kill her the night of the abduction. He forced her to pack clothes for herself and Charlie, then made her crawl to her parents room (they were out of town) while the baby still slept in her room. “The police said that he had it all planned -he just couldn’t kill me that night.”
So Leaf put them into the car he had taken from his girlfriend, the Chevrolet Nova which would eventually be discovered by the Rappahannock County Sheriffs Department after Leaf abandoned it in Old Hollow.
“I don’t think he knew where he was going,” Ms. Hart said. “He looked at maps when we stopped for gas. At one point, he talked about going to Tennessee. That’s why we went that way.”
Ms. Hart said that she did what Leaf told her to do for fear for her safety, and that of her son.
“I knew that he wouldn’t hurt us as long as I didn’t make him angry — as long as I went along with what he said and did.” And Leaf fed them and kept them warm, she said. “All he wanted was to live his life with me and his son.”
Ms. Hart said that she kept thinking of ways she could escape, but was afraid Leaf would catch her and kill her. “I wouldn’t leave my son with him. I had already lived six months without him, and I would not do it again.”
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