A pizza deliveryman said he thought about his wife when he saw an Atlanta woman bound with rope and begging for help inside a secluded cabin.
On Friday, police called the deliveryman a hero for rescuing the 24-year-old after she was allegedly kidnapped from Atlanta, driven to a cabin in the Smoky Mountains and raped.
"I kept thinking it could have been her," deliveryman Chris Turner said as he looked at his wife. "She could have been another one for his sex party."
Police say David Joseph Jansen, of Snellville, abducted the woman Thursday morning and took her to a cabin in Gatlinburg, Tenn.
The woman remained in the cabin for several hours until the deliveryman arrived to bring Jansen dinner — an extra large supreme pizza, ten hot wings and four 20 ounce-bottles of soda.
"He was signing the credit card slip when she popped up from the couch and showed me her tied hands and mouthed 'call 911,'" said Turner, who has been delivering pizzas at Capelli's Pizza in Gaitlinburg for a month. "I said 'Are you for real?' I didn't believe her."
The woman rolled her eyes and again silently pleaded for Turner to call police.
"My stomach was turning and I turned white as a ghost and left. I wanted to remain calm so he didn't know I suspected anything," Turner said Friday.
Turner then climbed into the delivery van, where his wife, Laniesha, was waiting. They drove to neighbor Bill Toomey's house, where they called police.
Deputies arrived shortly later and found the woman asleep on the couch, covered in a blanket.
"He saw the female tied up, secured the scene and untied her," McCarter said. Jansen told deputies the two were on a "romantic getaway from their spouses" and the woman was sexually aroused by bondage, according to the report.
Deputies didn't buy this story, handcuffed Jansen and separated the couple. Once away from Jansen, the woman told police she had been kidnapped and raped, the report states.
"At this point we don't know what Mr. Jansen's intent was, but the pizza delivery man was instrumental in her safety," McCarter said.
Turner met the victim and her husband, who thanked him.
"I was doing my job and being a citizen," the 32-year-old deliveryman said. "Plus, I got $13 off the delivery. That's not bad for a half an hour."
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