Pizza deliveryman Chris Turner is photographed Friday, May 29, 2009 outside the Capelli's Pizza and Subs shop in Gatlinburg, Tenn. Turner helped rescue an Atlanta woman who had been kidnapped and raped when he saw her during a delivery to a rental cabin Tuesday, May 26, 2009 and called police. Turner said that he noticed the woman pop up from a couch while her abductor signed the credit card slip.
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Deliveryman saves bound woman
Atlantan found in Tennessee cabin.Snellville man charged with rape, kidnapping.
http://www.ajc.com/services/content/printedition/2009/05/30/pizzaman0530.htmlSEVIER COUNTY, Tenn. —- A pizza deliveryman said he thought about his own wife’s safety 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,” 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 as she was jogging around 11:30 a.m. Tuesday in her subdivision on Montgomery Ferry Road in Atlanta.
He took her to a rented cabin in the mountains, where he bound her again, forced her to take some prescription pills, cut her clothes off and raped her twice, police said.
“It’s in the most isolated, desolate area of the county, way up in the mountains,” McCarter said.
The woman remained in the cabin for several hours until the deliveryman arrived to bring Jansen dinner —- an extra large supreme pizza, 10 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 Gatlinburg for a month. “I said, ‘Are you for real?’ I didn’t believe her.”
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.
Toomey and the pizza deliveryman waited for about 20 minutes for deputies to arrive. Worried that Jansen would flee, Toomey blocked the cabin’s driveway with his truck.
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.”