Carter Roy

So there were definitely some questions.

And in response to these questions, Amy mostly just shrugged.

Then, after about two weeks of testimony, Amy took the stand to tell her story start to finish.

But she didn't start with the day on the beach.

She told her whole biography.

The Cliffs notes, Amy was born poor, widowed young, and directionless by age 19.

But she heard God's call, and together with her mother, spent years evangelizing and fundraising to establish her church, which now had several hundred thousand believers.

Why would she choose to leave when her work was finally coming to fruition?

No sane person would walk away from that.

Therefore, her kidnapping story must be true.

Yeah, she tried to win them over with a sob story.

And then to top it off, for several days of the grand jury, Amy insisted that she be carried in and out of the room because she was too exhausted to walk.

Though she made it through the desert just fine.

And if it weren't theatrical enough, let's meet the surprise witness, a grocery delivery boy named Ralph Swanson.

He testified that while Amy was missing, he saw her in a seaside cottage in Carmel-by-the-Sea, a ritzy California vacation town.

He delivered her groceries.

And according to other witnesses, Amy wasn't alone.

She was with her former employee, Kenneth Ormiston, a married man.

Now, Amy had made her name preaching conservative Christian values, including no sex outside of marriage.

So if this was true, not only did she lie to her entire congregation, she sinned against the church she started.