manning a road block at an intersection, just five addresses down from the ripken family home, where vy ripkene mother of baseball iron man cal ripken junior had been abducted by a gunman from her garage nearly 24 hours before. in fact, snyder said he made a u-turn when he saw the road block, then he saw something he had not seen moments before. >> i saw someone waving a white sweater out of a car window. i stopped and asked the woman inside if she needed help. she said that her house was really close to her but somebody had left her in the car and that her feet were bound. remembering the roadblock, i asked her if it was all right if i got the police. >> reporter: which he did. police found mrs. ripken, age 74, legs still restrained, struggling to get out of her 1998 lincoln, a car like this one, which had been stolen during the abduction and used by the kidnap tore drive around the region with mrs. ripken blindfolded and restrained in the backseat. snyder said the passenger side door was hanging open, as if someone had just got out and walked away moments before. that someone may be this man