”He just kept slowly pressuring, pushing, manipulating,” Ossorio recalls. ”But he didn’t appear threatening. And it was a ride that would forever change her life.”
Once inside, Forrest pulled a knife on Norma, drove her to a secluded area near Tukes Mountain, punched her, gagged her with her bra, and tied her to two trees.
He also took her glasses.
Left alone, Norma feared Forrest would return to finish the attack.
“At one point … I heard noise in the woods behind me, sounding like someone was looking for something but trying to be quiet,” she said. “I bet I stood there for two hours after the sounds stopped and didn’t move, just waiting, scared to death that he was waiting to hear me move.”
She spent the entire night struggling to free her hands from the ropes. With incredible courage, she chewed through the ropes binding her.
”The first thought that came to me was, if he comes back and finds me like this, he really will kill me,” she recalled in Stolen Voices of Dole Valley.