Elizabeth Shoaf
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Elizabeth Shoaf is a fourteen-year-old Lugoff, South Carolina child who was kidnapped and raped by thirty-year-old Vinson Filyaw, an unemployed construction worker, on September 6th 2006. Elizabeth's text message to her mother lead police to the bunker where she had been held for ten days. Police used cell towers to locate her.
Elizabeth was kidnapped after she alighted her school bus, when abducted by Filyaw who was posing as a police officer. He walked the girl around in the woods until she become disorientated as to her location then marched her to a 15-foot bunker near his trailer home.
Filyaw was five miles from his house carrying a taser, pellet gun, and knife when he was arrested. He is currently in Kershaw County jail after being charged with kidnapping, possession of an incendiary device and impersonating a police officer with other charges pending.