ALVARADO, TEX. — After a desperate 600-mile game of cat and mouse, a Texas Ranger raced through a hail of gunfire Sunday to snatch the 13-year-old daughter of a wealthy businessman from captors who had held her since Friday. Almost 48 hours after Amy McNiel was abducted on her way to school by kidnapers who later demanded $100,000 in ransom, she was rescued at the end of a ''running gun battle'' stretching across three East Texas counties, authorities said. Two of the five suspects were injured in the shooting. All were arrested and charged Sunday with aggravated kidnaping and attempted capital murder. The rescue brought to an end an all-night drama during which Amy`s father, Don McNiel, frantically followed a hopscotch path across eastern Texas to keep up with the kidnapers. THE RESCUE effort began at about 5 p.m. Saturday, when McNiel received a call to go to a telephone booth in East Dallas for instructions on where to deliver the ransom. Then, placing calls to designated phone booths in towns spread hundreds of miles apart, the kidnapers continued to give the Alvarado businessman instructions on where to drop the money he carried in a large bank bag. ''We were totally subservient to what they said,'' said McNeil, 44. ''We just begged, `Don`t hurt my baby.` '' McNiel said he pushed his car to speeds of more than 100 m.p.h. to reach a closed filling station for the kidnapers` third call. Then the engine of the vehicle burned out. The kidnapers were told the car could go no farther. Scores of law enforcement officials who had tailed McNiel`s limousine began scattering and regrouping for another try the next day. THEN THE kidnapers, with Amy McNiel in the car, drove by the stalled limousine as Texas Rangers, who had remained in the area, watched. What resulted was a ''running gunbattle'' that took the kidnapers and authorities across three counties early Sunday. As Rangers turned to follow the car, two of the five occupants raised sawed-off shotguns and began firing, according to police. Amy McNiel was rescued at about 4:30 a.m. Sunday by Texas Ranger John Dendy, who charged through a hail of gunfire to grab her from the kidnapers` car. McNiel, who was in a car with other Texas Rangers, arrived in time to find his spunky daughter apparently unharmed. ''THERE SHE was, and there I was on a country road,'' McNiel said at a news conference Sunday. ''I ran up and grabbed her. She said, `Dad, I love you` . . . and we were dancing in the middle of the road for 10 minutes. ''Thank God, my baby`s home.'' Describing the ordeal, McNiel, 44, said his daughter ''was scared to death the first half day. Then she was scared and mad. She became stronger as it went on.'' McNiel, a manufacturer and bank director, sought the Democratic nomination for the 6th Congressional District in 1978. He finished last in a six-candidate field led by then-Democrat Phil Gramm.
Faced with requests for leniency in a kidnapping case from the Athens County prosecutor, the defendant's attorney, state parole authorities and the victim's parents, a local judge on Thursday reluctantly agreed to place 19-year-old Amy M. McNeil on probation rather than send her to prison. Athens County Common Pleas Judge L. Alan Goldsberry warned that if he applied literally the language of sentencing guidelines in Ohio's Senate Bill 2, ""I would have no choice but to impose a long prison sentence."" He added that he is ""as amazed as (defense attorney K. Robert) Toy was,"" that the Ohio Adult Parole Authority recommended probation in a pre-sentence investigation.  On the morning of January 11, 1985, Mark McNeil and his sister Amy were on their way to school when their vehicle was forced off the road by three masked men. One of the men placed a shotgun to Mark’s head while the other two forceably removed Amy from the vehicle and placed her on the rear floorboard of their car. Mark was given instructions by one of the men, and he returned home and informed his mother of what had happened. She in turn informed his father, who notified the police. The four men took Amy McNeil to the Foote home and Lisa Bouvier was charged with caring for her. Amy’s father was called. They instructed him to obtain $100,000 in cash. The following day, the men, all armed with shotguns and pistols, and Lisa Bouvier left the house in a stolen car. They carried Amy McNeil, the kidnapped victim, with them. After driving a circuitous route, the group proceeded to the place designated for McNeil to bring the money. Mills was driving the vehicle, and en route the group concluded that they were being followed by the police. Shots were then fired from the vehicle. Bouvier testified they were going to take a hostage at a filling station or house. The car was going too fast to stop at the filling station and stopped in a yard near a house in Saltillo. Lisa and Amy got on the floorboard. Mills, Barnes and Foote got out of the car. Shots were exchanged, and when the shooting stopped, Mills and Foote were lying on the ground in front of a van which was parked in the yard. Mills raised his hands and surrendered to Texas Rangers Bill Gunn, Howard Alford and John Dendy, who had been among the pursuing officers. A 13-year-old girl, kidnapped on her
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