[post_page_title]Appealing to her kidnapper[/post_page_title]
During the kidnapping, Denise says that her captor talked to her about his life. She sensed that there was some speck of humanity in him and she tried to appeal to it by sharing personal stories of her own. She hoped that if he saw her as a human being, he would let her go. “He spoke to me a lot,” she says. “He shared with me that he had a difficult time in his life. I shared with him something that happened when I was younger.”