Kidnapping of Louisiana mom foiled by gut instinct of off-duty sheriff's deputy
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This story originally aired on Oct. 22, 2022. KLFY REPORT: "Police say the woman was forcefully removed from her home in Lafayette …" MICHAEL HANDLEY (crying in video): I love you. I love you. MICHAEL HANDLEY (video): Kill her … kill her. FRIEND (video): Y'all are both pretty stubborn … MICHAEL HANDLEY (video): And that's why she'll die. MICHAEL HANDLEY (video): Thing is, you can't break in this place. You can't break in here … SYLVESTER BRACEY TO MICHAEL HANDLEY (camera recording): I'll kill that mother f*****. NEWS REPORT: A Lafayette man was sentenced today in the 2017 kidnapping case of his estranged wife. Lawrence Michael Handley received 35-years in prison for the crime.
Schanda Handley was at her home in the suburban neighborhood of Lafayette, Louisiana, with her daughter, Isabella, when the doorbell rang around 2:30 p.m. on Aug. 6, 2017. MICHAEL HANDLEY: Neither one of us is going to surrender to the other. SYLVESTER BRACEY: And she can't break out.
Two men, posing as deliverymen, forced themselves in with guns. "They started to scream … to 'get the F on the floor,' and 'don't move,'" Handley told "48 Hours" contributor David Begnaud in her first television interview. FRIEND: Right. Yeah, she's not going to and you're not going to.
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