"…Joanna Jacobs took control of the villa and forbade any of us from going up to the second floor to get near Mr. Valerius. Mrs. Evelyn Vaughn kept blaming Aurora, saying she had caused everything. Then, a group of fierce, hulking men suddenly barged in. They took Joanna away and left over a dozen guys behind to kill us. I was so terrified that I hid in my room on the first floor and barricaded the door with my wardrobe. I really don't know what happened outside. I'm not lying at all!"
Ms. Sutton was making her final stand. She harbored the desperate delusion that if she just said this much, her captors would believe her and let her and her son go.
Instead, the interrogator gave a cold sneer. "You're not being honest. You know that's not what I want to hear. If you don't tell me something useful, your son's life is forfeit."
