How Abductors Get Willing Victims

March 17, 2005 -- -- Most people think they and their loved ones would know what to do if they were ever confronted by a potential abductor. But child safety expert Bob Stuber showed "Primetime Live" that may not always be the case -- even with older children, like teenagers.

Watched by "Primetime's" hidden cameras, Stuber stopped two teens strolling in an Oklahoma suburb. The tall and mustachioed Stuber told them he was a police officer making an arrest and a police dog had been unleashed in the neighborhood.

In an urgent tone, he asked them their names and asked them to stand by his vehicle, an unmarked car. Without question, they obeyed his orders. "If you see this dog, it's a German shepherd, come running up the street, jump in this car real quick," Stuber said.

In less than a minute, the girls were in Stuber's car.

Minutes later, Stuber told the girls he wasn't a cop -- he was working with ABC News.

Fourteen-year-old Caitlin said she didn't think Stuber was a cop all along. Her mother, Vickie, who was watching the incident with an ABC News crew, wanted to know why she didn't run or ask to see the man's badge. "I don't know," Caitlin said.

Stuber says he knows what happened. He overloaded the girls with information, putting them in a situation they wouldn't recognize.

"It could go either way. But if you really don't know what to do, you're going to do what I tell you to do, and that's exactly what happened," he said. "I had you all the way in the car. I mean the keys were in there, and I all I had to do was drive."

Stuber, in fact, believes this is what happened last winter to Carlie Bruscia, 11. Her abduction in Sarasota, Fla., was captured on videotape. She is seen talking to her abductor and going with him without his taking her by force.

"Whatever he said to her was logical. And that's all it had to be," Stuber told ABC News.

Brusica's body was later found in nearby woods. An unemployed auto mechanic was arrested in her death and will go to trial later this year.