Samantha (the victim)

This is the interior.

So to give you another view of the inside.

So that's two by six construction.

Now we're shutting the second door, which is the exterior.

I don't know that my friends or family are safe or that they would be used to try to get to me or that he would hurt someone.

He's out there and he's capable of murdering, I think.

I was convinced if he had gone through all that trouble that there was gonna be no end unless he was behind bars.

The detectives let us know that he's been found and arrested, and it was safe if I wanted to return to my home.

And I felt this weight lifted off of me, like, okay, he's not gonna hurt my friends and family and me, and I don't know what's gonna come next, but they caught him.

Like, I did the thing.

Like, I...

They arrested him.

I was in the woods.

Okay.

Well, you weren't in the woods at 7.

He didn't want to leave hair behind, so he tried to chemically remove a bunch of his hair and it had a bad skin reaction.

We had been in touch with the prosecutor's office, and Christopher was set to be arraigned.

And so Robin and I streamed the arraignment

There on my TV screen in my living room, seeing him in that orange jumpsuit and hearing my name and hearing the actual crimes he was charged with, you know, they were very heavy words.

I charged Christopher Thomas with kidnapping, home invasion first, torture, aggravated stalking, and four counts of criminal sexual conduct, first degree.