By Brian Brant
(CARNEGIE, Penn.) A woman escaped a months-long kidnapping by leaving notes in public restrooms that led Pennsylvania police toward her rescue, according to NBC News.
A note was first discovered in a Carnegie, Pennsylvania, Walmart where a woman claimed she was being sexually and physically assaulted by a man, per a criminal complaint.
The woman said she was being held against her will and urged anyone who found the note to call 911, including to which stated that the man had a knife and listed an address.
“If I don’t make it, tell my family I love them,” the woman wrote, according to KDKA.
WPXI reports nobody answered the door when authorities checked the address. The man later told police the woman was in New York when they tried to contact her by phone.
Another note was found on Saturday in the woman's bathroom at a museum in Mill Run, Pennsylvania. That finding led police to return to the address with SWAT team members.
Police saved the woman and arrested the man, identified as 38-year-old Corey Brewer of Pittsburgh. He is charged with sexual assault, strangulation and unlawful restraint.
The woman told police she had been held captive since May 1 and that Brewer threatened to kill her and her family if she left, per the criminal complaint. The two were in a relationship and the woman, unidentified by police, had a protection-from-abuse from Brewer.
An initial court hearing is scheduled for July 22.