The moment a woman escapes after 1 year of captivity
A kidnapped woman in New Jersey, the United States, whose identity has not been identified, escaped from her captor after enduring a year of captivity and rushed to a gas station and asked for help, which led to the arrest of the kidnapper.
Rosiato: A kidnapped woman in New Jersey, the United States, whose identity has not been identified, escaped from her captor after enduring a year of captivity and quickly reached a gas station and asked for help, which led to the arrest of the kidnapper. became.
James W. Parrillo, 57, allegedly held the woman captive in Burlington County, New Jersey and threatened to kill her family if she escaped. The police believe that the man's crimes did not end with this woman, because he was present in other states under several aliases.
The suspect is currently in jail pending charges. In the videos, a woman is seen riding her bicycle to the gas station, followed by a large man. The gas station staff take the woman to their back office, where she is finally freed from the kidnapper.
"We are contacting law enforcement across jurisdictions to identify other individuals who may have additional information about this defendant," the district attorney said.
"Our investigation is ongoing and we are committed to doing everything we can to ensure that justice is served for this victim," he added.
The woman befriended Parrillo, who introduced himself to the woman as Brett Parker , at a gas station in New Mexico. According to authorities, Parrillo asked the woman to travel with Lowe to Arizona. The couple was involved in a month-long consensual relationship that ended about a month later in California. But Parillo locked the woman and did not allow her to leave.
Parillo took this woman's phone and spent money from her cards. At the same time, he had not allowed the woman to contact his family members during the time they were together.
In late 2022, the Burlington County couple rented a room on the second floor of a house in Bass River Township. On February 7, the woman ran away after Parillo tried to choke her during an argument.
In an affidavit filed by police in support of a probable cause abduction charge against Parillo, one of the officers wrote that the abducted woman ran away at the only chance she had.
When she got to the gas station, she told two workers there that the man had held her captive against her will for about a year. Her claims of suffocation were consistent with the marks on her neck.
The manager of this gas station said that the woman was scared and shaking when she entered the station, she could hardly speak, but she kept saying, "He has held me against my will for more than a year. He kidnapped me."
The man entered the gas station shortly after the woman and tried to enter the office, but was prevented from entering. A video shows the man trying to bypass the door that the woman had closed.
When the police arrived, Pario refused to give them his real name, which led to his arrest.
The man later gave his real name to law enforcement and admitted to trying to strangle the woman on February 7. Jersey City police charged Parrillo with first-degree kidnapping, alleging that he held the woman captive for about a year in order to terrorize and physically abuse her. He is accused of threatening the woman and saying that if she leaves, he will kill her and her family.
According to the court documents, in addition to kidnapping, the defendant was charged with two counts of assault, criminal prohibition and obstruction of charges. He also refused to provide a DNA sample to the authorities, which led to another charge being added to his case.
"These allegations, if proven, represent a level of hostile behavior that poses an extreme risk to anyone who comes into contact with this defendant," said the director of the Division of Criminal Justice.
