Massachusetts Appeals Court August 10, 2000, No. 96-P-1103 (Commonwealth v. Jordan)

Dreben, J.

A woman in Florida, Rochelle Kaminski, telephoned Massachusetts State police stating that her best Mend, Carol Leith, had been kidnapped and was going to be killed. Leith was being held in a car by the defendant and one Edgar Smith on route 91 in Massachusetts, going north. Alerted by the call, police officers found Leith’s empty car in a rest area.