Kidnapped by Her Ex, Fearing Even Worse

Dec. 18 -- When Carter Elliot was killed in his Conway, Ark., home late one Saturday night, no one could have guessed that his death was only the beginning of the terror for those he left behind.

Elliot was having a drink with a friend when they both were shot dead by someone wielding a 9mm pistol. There were few clues left behind.

"He was the person I looked to for answers," Elliot's grown daughter Ashley told ABCNEWS with tears in her eyes.

Then, only one month after the killings, Ashley and Trey's mother, Elliot's ex-wife Lark, would herself become a victim of violent crime.

Home Invader

Lark was living alone in Salt Lake City, and had come home from work one day to find an uninvited man in her apartment.

At gunpoint, the man forced Lark to drink a pink liquid from a small plastic cup. She says it was a cocktail of drugs and alcohol to knock her out. Then the man tied her up and dumped her in the back of his truck.

Lark woke up in the truck, groggy and barely aware of her surroundings. She saw six large duffel bags full of clothes — as if the man was stealing her away.

Beneath her, she felt a metal bar that she hoped might be the key to her escape. She used it to hit her abductor, but he just turned around and zapped her with a stun gun.

The man drove Lark 600 miles to a remote cabin in the Sierra Nevadas. She says she woke up on her abductor's bed in the master bedroom, her hands and feet cuffed to the bed.

Not Like a Friend

Lark's absence was noticed when she didn't show up for work. Her daughter Ashley called the police and asked them to go to her mother's house. "Having your Dad pass away 30 days before — that just sends off all sorts of triggers," she said.

In a search of Lark's computer, police found e-mails apparently written by her. The e-mails said she had decided to leave everything behind after meeting an extremely wealthy man, but Ashley says they hardly sounded rational, and they certainly didn't sound like they were written by her mother.