That day she was trying to escape him for good. She was on her way to a friend’s house where she planned to hide, but she never made it — the accident happened.

When the husband learned she was in the hospital, he immediately filed the “kidnapping” report to shift attention away from himself and get her back while the police were busy searching for a “criminal.” And the real kidnapper was him.

The driver was released. He walked out of the detention center exhausted, his eyes red, barely able to believe that everything was finally over.