The Kidnapping of Schanda Handley
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(upbeat music) - It's so powerful to see how my mom handled this situation. She's amazing, you know, and she's really, really strong. - How often do residential kidnappings happen here? - Very rare. - Yeah, not very often at all. - Shawna Hanley is at her home with her daughter, Isabella. Her friend came over just to come and visit with her. - We talked for about five or 10 minutes and the doorbell rang. And so I went to the door and it sees two men. - These two individuals essentially present themselves to be delivery men of some sort. Shawna sees them, says, look, I have a friend over and I was not a good time. When she goes to close the door on them, they force themselves in with guns. (dramatic music) - They started to scream to get the F on the floor and don't move. They handcuffed me in front like this. - I was just stunned. I saw that my mom and her friend were handcuffed. - I said, I have valuables, I have jewelry, I have cash, I have precious metals. I can get you money. Didn't interest them at all. - They said, come with me and she went and then they came back and asked me and I said, no. And they just accepted that. And left. - They put her in the van. - I'm hooded. They hooded me as soon as I went into the van. It was a van that didn't have the windows in the back and it was just a rubber mat without seats back there and laid me on the floor. - And then they leave. - These guys are heading out of town with Shawna handling the back of that van. One of the guys sat on top of me, so he stayed screaming at me. He had the gun to my head. I was trying to pay attention to where we were. I could feel when we picked up speed that we had made a turn. I was like, oh no, my heart sunk. I was like, we're on an interstate or something. And the guys stripped me. They threatened to assault me sexually.
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A daughter watches in horror as her mother is kidnapped from their home by intruders posing as deliverymen. "48 Hours" contributor David Begnaud reports.