Cellphone tracking saves kidnap victim

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () bsf-llc com>]

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/09/17/teen_rescued_after_sen
ding_text_message?mode=PF

Authorities arrest kidnapping suspect
By Jeffrey Collins, Associate Press Writer  |  September 17, 2006

LUGOFF, S.C. --Authorities early Sunday arrested a man suspected of
kidnapping a 14-year-old girl who sent a cell phone text message to her
mother that led to her rescue from a booby-trapped bunker.

Investigators arrested 37-year-old Vinson Filyaw on Interstate 20 in
Richland County about 24 hours after rescuing Elizabeth Shoaf, said Sheriff
Steve McCaskill in neighboring Kershaw County.

...

The sheriff said the text message the girl sent to her mother came from
Filyaw's cell phone and deputies began looking for him Friday night.

Investigators used cell towers to determine a general location of the phone
used to send the message. "That was the first break," McCaskill said.


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