Pizza man spots rapist. Rapist pays $800,000 bond.

Man Leads Police to Ga. Rape Victim

SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - An alert deliveryman spotted a woman tied up inside a remote cabin in Tennessee's Smoky Mountains while dropping off a pizza, and police said his call to police helped rescue the kidnapping and rape victim.

Sevier County deputies freed the 24-year-old woman Tuesday evening after getting an emergency call from deliveryman Chris Turner. They arrested David J. Jansen, 46, of Snellville, Ga., on charges of aggravated kidnapping and rape, Sheriff Ron Seals said.

The woman told authorities she was jogging near her home about 11:50 a.m. Tuesday when Jansen, whom she knew, asked her to see his new car. She got into the vehicle, which turned out to be a rental.

She told police she was tied up, driven more than 200 miles to the cabin in Tennessee and raped. Later, the suspect ordered takeout. The Associated Press does not identify alleged victims of sexual assault.

Turner said he pulled up to the cabin with the pizza around 8 p.m.

"When I knocked on the door and handed the guy my credit card slip to get him to sign it, there happened to be a young lady (who) popped over the back of the couch and showed me that her hands were bound together," Turner told WBIR-TV. "(She) was mouthing to me, 'Please call 911."'

The deliveryman returned to his van, wrote down the suspect's tag number and called police from a neighbor's house.

Deputies arrived, found the victim tied up on the couch and arrested Jansen. They took the woman to a hospital.

"We feel like she was in very imminent danger based on what investigators saw and evidence found at the scene," Capt. Jeff McCarter told The Mountain Press newspaper. McCarter didn't immediately return calls from The Associated Press.

Jansen was being held on $800,000 bond. Phone calls to a listing for a 46-year-old David J. Jansen in Snellville were not returned Friday.

Turner said the victim and her husband came by the pizza shop the day after the abduction. "She just wanted me to know she was OK and everything," he said. "And that they were thankful for what I did and all that."

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[JohnasonLin1982]

WOW !! Nice laws there USA.. some fucked up laws..

How can you get bailed when you were just charged with Rape ?? So what he goes back and rapes her again and then kills the Pizza man.. since his going to jail the rest of his life... might as well get some revenge... at the same time one last fuck !

JESUS USA GROW UP and make real laws... literally the only modern country with legal guns.. LOL !!!

[unemployedfarmer]

I agree he shouldn't have been set free and there shouldn't be any bail. I'm sure many other Americans feel the same way about cases like this. About the guns, we like them or they would already be gone.

[ocliu]

Wife beater at 1:31!

[ocliu]

@JohnasonLin1982

That's how the system works. Look at this case, he DIDN'T do it.

Depending their criminal background they are given the option of bail or not.

If he wouldn't have had eighty thousand in cash he wouldn't have been out.

[JohnasonLin1982]

I think it would be better if he was given no bail... Incase he did do it.

[JohnasonLin1982]

So your telling me if somebody rapes someone in the states, bail out and that person can keep raping if he wanted ? Unless proven guilty? LOL

[ocliu]

@Mamasan41

Just read my previous posts and don't be ignorant and willing to lynch somebody without proof.

[ocliu]

@lancehazen

and you must receive a lobotomy

[ocliu]

@JohnasonLin1982

Ignorant comment. If he would have killed her they wouldn't have let him out on bail.

Google this: sevier county prosecutors drop rape kidnap charges

[ocliu]

Innocent until proven guilty.

Google this:

sevier county prosecutors drop rape kidnap charges

[ocliu]

@JohnasonLin1982

The reason he was let out on bail, is because our judicial system is the best and everybody is INNOCENT until proven guilty.

As it turned out to be. The girl made all that up, the guy was innocent, and the pizza man is in jail for beating up his wife.