Kidnapping of Michelle Curtis

Michelle Curtis is a graduate student in psychology who reports a recent traumatic event. While studying one evening while her husband was at work, a thief broke into her apartment and bound her. Despite her denials, the intruder continued to insist that she was hiding large amounts of money and/or valuables. Subject was briefly freed, threatened, then re-tied and silenced with a gag while the thief ransacked her apartment. Most significantly for our study, subject reports that, despite understandable high level of fearful emotion, her mind continued to function rationally as she analyzed her situation, her captor's motivations and other relevant matters. Once the intruder convinced himself that subject was not actually in possession of large amounts of money, he departed after restraining and silencing the subject again. In a surprising postscript to the event, subject reports that though husband naturally freed her on his return, he found her plight rather intriguing and used the ropes left behind by the intruder to restrain her and also replaced the mouth gag before going off to a bar with a friend. Recommendation: Query subject on stability of marriage in three months