"I should have known the job was too good to be true; too bad I didn't figure that out until I was rolling around naked and tied up with a rubber ball in my mouth! I'd been knocking around for a few years, pulling off a few burglaries here and there, some solo, some partnered up. Along the way, it turned out I was pretty handy with rope, a skill that was useful when someone was home during a heist and objected to their valuables walking away with me!

"But kidnapping was another story . . .