How This Woman Forced Into Marriage by a Kidnapper Escaped

look closely police say they are watching a

woman

who has been kidnapped; She is at a wedding chapel and says she is being

forced

to marry her

kidnapper

. Surveillance footage shows the couple casually strolling through the small neon chapel in Las Vegas. Joseph Hetzel kisses Virginia Paris on her cheek, he also puts his arm around her neck and hugs her tightly, but Virginia says that it is not a gesture of love, it is an act of intimidation. In

this

exclusive interview with Inside Edition, Virginia tells me that she was afraid that Hetzel would kill her, did you think you could die?

Yes, at one point she tries to leave the chapel, but Hetzel blocks her and forces her back. Virginia says her four-day nightmare began when she was leaving work at a retirement home in Santa Barbara County, California, and was deliberately cut off by a car, suddenly the driver. jumped into her car it was an acquaintance Joseph Hetzel he ordered her to go to Las Vegas she had struck up a friendship with Hetzel two months before but ended it when she says he became obsessed with her I kept asking him to stop it was just horrible After the wedding ceremony wedding, Hetzel allowed him to call his daughter Jennifer, who knew immediately that something was very wrong.

She called Tommy, never forget, help me, she loves us and Virginia says her nightmare ended here at the railroad crossing hotel and casino, miles from the Las Vegas Strip, but it was really here that you knew

this

was your chance, so this was my chance because he let me in, he gave me $100 to check into a room and this was my chance. Good health surveillance video shows Virginia checking into the hotel after the wedding. Hetzel sent her alone because he didn't want to be caught on surveillance cameras in the hotel lobby. This is the moment she asked employee Danielle. jacobson to help her this is what's happening I think: I need you to act like you're searching the room please, I've been kidnapped against my will, very grateful, very grateful that you helped me, the cameras Surveillance outside the hotel shows how, upon realizing that the police have arrived, he flees and what he does, he takes the It's time to leave this sinister voicemail for Virginia's daughter.

This is Joseph. He was chased by the police and I kept score, so it will soon end when the police catch me. I will be good. Quetzal was captured in Las Vegas before him. could do more damage now Virginia Paris wants everyone to know it wasn't a chapel wedding it was a kidnapping Joseph Hetzel faces kidnapping and car theft charges Virginia is in the process of having that

marriage

annulled