I'd be screaming like a little girl

They found a 24-year-old woman who has apparently been held against her will for 10 years by a man who lived just two miles from her house.

The stories about these people who are held captive - yet not really held – fascinate me.

She finally confided to a store owner, but the reports say she had become close to him over an eight-month period. Why did she wait so long?

Remember the Elizabeth Smart case; the little girl from Utah who was apparently kidnapped from her bedroom one night? She just disappeared and was presumed by everyone to be dead. Then she turned up one day and was recognized. But, in all the months she was gone, she had actually been out and about, in fast food restaurants and the like, and never told anyone.

These victims weren't imprisoned, tied up and kept in a basement somewhere. They actually leave the captors' houses and go to public places, but don't tell anyone their plight.

I think most people would be shouting out the first chance they could get, but these abductees don't.

I don't get it. Are they brainwashed? Are they fearful that somehow the kidnappers will hurt or kill them? Are they really being held captive? What am I missing in these stories?

And the media pisses me off when they cover cases like these. They never really go into the back story, or perhaps get an interview with a psychologist to explain the underlying reason for these non-captive captives not telling anyone. Lazy bastards.