 The authorities intercepted Smith at the murder scene, an abandoned quarry, after two of the abductees escaped.The two were picked up on Interstate 95 by a passing motorist who stopped a North Carolina State Highway Patrol officer, who notified local authorities.The two surviving abductees, both age 19, told officers they we forced at gunpoint into the trunk of the car near Wesleyan’s gymnasium, while the girl murdered age 20 was forced to ride in the passenger seat from Rocky Mount to Weldon, North Carolina.