KANSAS CITY, Kan. – Kansas City, Kansas police are aggressively searching for the man who kidnapped Terri S. Auderer last Thursday.
Sunday afternoon, Lake Waukomis, Missouri police received a report of a man, sitting a van, watching children play near the lake.
When officers went to the scene to investigate, the driver sped away taking officers into Kansas City, Kan., to the neighborhood of 14th and Cleveland. The man then abandoned the van, which rolled into a Lake Waukomis police car, and ran away on foot.
Police tell NBC Action News that the man’s description closely matches the description of the suspect in the
kidnapping case of 46-year-old Auderer last Thursday in Kansas City, Kan.
Auderer disappeared from her home in the 8100 block of Berger around 5 p.m. Witnesses said she came home and interrupted a break-in. The suspect, armed with a gun, led Auderer outside. She fought her attacker as he stuffed her inside a white van.
Police organized an intense manhunt using Kansas Highway Patrol’s helicopter. Around 8:30 p.m. in Northeast Kansas City, Kan., they found Auderer alive, well, and anxious to reunite with her husband.
Police have since then been searching for Auderer’s kidnapper.
