This 20-Year-Old Was Kidnapped And Is Still Alive Because Of What Her Mom Taught Her Long Ago

Jan 03, 2019

July 26, 2017 started out as just another ordinary day in the life of then twenty-year-old University of South Carolina student Jordan Dinsmore. She pulled a shift at a local restaurant, then headed home.

But when she got to her apartment complex, things suddenly turned sinister. As she got out of her car, two men stepped out of a nearby wooded area. One of them was pointing a gun at her. Terrified, her first impulse was to scream. The gunman told her "Shut up or I'll shoot you" and forced her to the ground.

Neither of her assailants could drive a stick shift. So they forced her to drive them to a nearby ATM where she was made to withdraw $300 cash for the two men. She implored them to just take the car and leave. Of course, they didn't. Instead, things took a yet darker turn and she was told that she had to drive the two men somewhere else where they would be alone.

Little did the men know that her mother, Beth Turner, had prepared her well for life, both by example and by verbal instruction. Jordan had always been told to not ever let anyone take her to a second place out of the public eye because that's where truly bad things happen to people.

She had also been told about the time her own mother was assaulted and successfully fought back. Similar to Jordan's experience, it happened as her mother left her car. Her mother had kicked the man who assaulted her and had escaped.

With hearing the chilling words that these two men intended to do bad things to her, she thought to herself "You know, I’m going to be strong like my mom. I’m going to get myself out of this." Thinking of her mother's wise words, Jordan devised a plan. She didn't put her seat belt on when she got back in the car.

As they were approaching an intersection with oncoming cars from three different directions, she put the car in neutral, opened the door and hurled herself from the vehicle as it raced along at more than 30 miles per hour. She then fled on foot.

Unable to drive the manual transmission vehicle, her kidnappers also fled. A woman who saw Jordan running away called 911, alerting the authorities to the incident.As soon as she could, she phoned her mother. The first words out of her mouth were assurances that she was fine.

Then she recounted her ordeal and how her mother's brave example and words of advice had served her so well when the chips were down. Her stunned mother later told an interviewer "I knew she was a tough, smart, bright girl… I didn’t know she had this in her, though." She smiled and shook her head.

We never know when life is going to go from prosaic to dangerous. Do you know a young person who could use some excellent safety advice? Forward this to them. You might just be saving their life down the road.