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Vinson Filyaw (born December 15, 1969) is a former construction worker convicted of kidnapping and raping Elizabeth Shoaf, a 14-year-old girl from Lugoff, South Carolina, in 2006, holding her captive in an underground bunker. Filyaw had built the bunker to elude police who were seeking him for the rape of Amberly Rose Shook. A former girlfriend of Filyaw's made an anonymous call to Kershaw County's Department of Social Services that alerted the police to him. Filyaw's girlfriend was also arrested on charges of aiding and abetting the abduction. ==Kidnapping== The victim, Elizabeth Shoaf,〔(Kidnapped teen stayed calm to stay alive - People: Tales of survival - MSNBC.com )〕 was kidnapped after she got off her school bus on September 6, 2006. Filyaw gained her trust by posing as a police officer.〔 He walked her around in the woods until she became disoriented and then marched her to a hand-dug 15-foot bunker near his trailer home, located within a mile of her own home. Once inside, he stripped her naked, restrained her with chains, and raped her several times a day over the duration of her 10-day captivity.〔 Police initially interpreted her disappearance as a runaway, and did not launch an Amber alert. An Amber Alert could not be issued because Shoaf's disappearance did not involve a car.〔 Shoaf's poise and calm while she was held captive was considered remarkable by people involved with missing children cases.〔(What Elizabeth Shoaf did right - Inside Dateline - msnbc.com )〕 "Not only was she very brave, she was also very smart and did several things that greatly improved her chances of survival," said Captain David Thomley of the Kershaw County Sheriff’s Department.〔 * While being led into the woods, she dropped her shoes in the hope that it would provide a clue for someone who was searching for her.〔 * Despite receiving ongoing death threats and having explosives hung around her neck, "() would talk with him about things that interested him, which in his eyes, made her a person, not just a captive. She began to gain his trust."〔 * After continuing to gain his trust, she was allowed out of the bunker, and would "pull out strands of her hair lay them on branches hoping search dogs might pick up her scent."〔 After 10 days in captivity,〔 the victim convinced Filyaw to let her borrow his cellular phone to play games, but she had an entirely different use in mind. Once he fell asleep, she texted her mother and friends, who contacted the police. Before the police could triangulate the phone number, Sheriff Steve McCaskill thought that the text was a hoax. The former girlfriend who made the call to Kershaw County's Department of Social Services passed on Filyaw's cell phone number to the police. The authorities then began to triangulate the bunker's position through local cell phone towers. Officer Dave Thomley did not know that Elizabeth Shoaf was underground in a bunker until Filyaw's former girlfriend showed them the first bunker he built. Thomley initially thought that it was a trash pit. Filyaw learned that he was being pursued when he watched the news on a battery-powered television in the bunker. He asked Shoaf for advice and she suggested he ought to run away to avoid capture. He left and the next morning Shoaf left the bunker and called for help until she was found by a rescue team.〔 Filyaw equipped the entrance of the bunker with a booby-trap, according to police. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vinson Filyaw」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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