Tom Mather

Don Michelle Mather.

Okay, my husband and I were watching television and we heard the dog barking and I assumed it was my dad who was always dropping by and this guy came in and he had a gun and he says, this is a hold up, this is a stick up, get down on the floor.

So my husband got down on the floor, and the guy had no clothes on except tennis shoes.

And at first, I thought he was wearing a, like, pantyhose or something over his face, you know?

But I don't know whether he took them off, or it was just my imagination that he was wearing them, because later on, he didn't have them on.

Um, he got my husband down, told me to come over...

He gave me some rope and told me to tie my husband up, and I tried to tie my husband up, but obviously I was fairly upset and wasn't doing a good enough job at it, I guess.

He just told me to go sit away from my husband a little bit and he tied my husband up.

Tied his hands back behind his head like they do, you know, on the police shows.

And then he tied his feet up and made him kind of inchworm down the hall into the bedroom and made me go into the bedroom.

And then he, you know, he had a gun and he kept telling us that, you know, do what he says or I'll blow your head off or I'll kill you or I'll shoot you or...

He couldn't get an erection.

So he told me to roll over and I did.

And he used, we had some clothes laying around the bedroom, used those to tie me up and then he took my husband back out into the bedroom.

He told me not to move or else he'd shoot my husband.

And then my husband started screaming and yelling and I started screaming, don't hurt him, you know, please don't hurt him.

And started trying to get free and I managed to get free and I started to run up or down the hall, out to the living room and my husband yelled, run, run, so...

The way out the house is, um, our bedroom is in the back, and then the hallway goes out toward the living room, which is in the front of the house, and there's an entryway into the garage about halfway in between.

So I just ducked out that way, through the garage, and ran for help to the neighbors across the way.

There was a... He tied my hands with a sweatshirt, and he tied my feet with... I think it was either a shirt or it might have been a towel.