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Show Park City with her grandmother, who only stayed a short while. Lisa was then left under the care of a babysitter, who had strict orders to keep her away from Reed. Reed maintains that the babysitter baby-sitter saw that Lisa was happy when she saw Reed and "wasn't into jealousy," so she allowed the girl to see him. When Carol Lee found out that Lisa had been seeing Reed, she again threatened threaten-ed to place her in juvenile hall until she was 18. Under pressure from her mother, says Reed, Lisa increasingly increas-ingly thought about leaving home to a life on the street in southern California. Reed vigorously objected ob-jected to this idea, saying "I don't even want to think of you becoming a hooker." At this point, the two were "best friends," says Reed. During the time Lisa had been away from her mother, she had night the babysitter, seeing that Lisa's tonsils were bleeding and not having access to a car to take her to the hospital, called Carol Lee to ask if Reed could take Lisa to a doctor. Carol Lee refused. According to Reed, this was the breaking point. He convinced the sitter to let him take Lisa to a hospital in Salt Lake for a penicillin shot. When she began to recover, Lisa said she couldn't forgive her mother and that she was going to leave. Reed realized he couldn't stop her and that he couldn't keep her in Park City across the street from her mother's apartment, so he called his friends in Montana and enlisted the help of friends in Park City to take Lisa there. She left that night. The next morning, the babysitter babysit-ter called to ask Reed if he had seen Lisa. "I haven't seen her this morning," he replied. tened to place Lisa in a juvenile home unless she straightened out. Reed maintains he was instrumental in convincing Lisa to stay in Park City. He took her to the tennis club and on hikes in the mountains to help instill an appreciation of what Utah had to offer. "We had a nice rapport," says Reed. "There was nothing romantic about it. She needed a friend." Reed says that as Lisa began to appreciate Park City, Carol Lee became more and more jealous. Lisa was "hanging out" at Reed's Happy Hut apartment and removing remov-ing herself from the conflict with her mother and her responsibilities responsibili-ties towards her seven year old sister, Danielle. Things were already "edgy" between Reed, Lisa and Carol Lee when a crucial incident took place. Lisa's younger sister stole $500 from Carol Lee's purse. "Kidnapper" Reed Tells His Story Lee became friends also and Reed kept in touch with her when he moved to Park City in November, 1975, to ski and "hang out." By July of 1976, says Reed, Carol Lee was under pressure in "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. I'm a living example of that," said Jack Reed after gained his freedom last week following over three months in various jails spent waiting a hearing on aggreviated kidnapping kidnap-ping charges. The 46-year-old Reed, who finally pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of custodial interference on April 27, was fatallistic about his experience, which took him to six county jails since his arrest in early February in Edgemont, California. In a lengthy interview with the Record last Thursday, Reed described the incidents leading to the kidnapping charges filed by the mother of 14 year old Lisa Brown, maintaining that press accounts and police reports of the case, based on the mother's, allegations, gave a distorted picture of what really happened. Reed said the charges against him were "bogus," but that the Park City police and Judge James Kilby, who sentenced him, "performed well" under the circumstances. According to Reed, the charges stopped smoking, quit drinking and had begun attending school. When Reed saw what pressure from her mother was doing to her, he began to think of ways to get Lisa away from her mother's influence. He contacted friends in White-fish, White-fish, Montana, who had met Lisa on a visit to Park City, and began thinking of making arrangements for her to stay with them for a while. Lisa, meanwhile, developed a serious case of strep throat. One "Danielle was extremely intelligent intell-igent for a seven year old, but she was devious," says Reed. "She felt she could buy her friends." Carol Lee found out about the theft when a parent of one of Danielle's young friend's appeared appear-ed at the door with a $100 bill, claiming that Danielle had been giving out the money to her friends. At this point, says Reed, Carol Lee "flipped out" and severely -punished the seven year old. Lisa, who had been nursing an ulcer and was "on the verge of becoming an alcoholic," moved into the upstairs of the Happy Hut, with Carol Lee's consent, to escape the situation. When Carol Lee saw that Lisa was happier with her arrange- California because of certain "business deals" and Reed urged Carol Lee and her two children to move to Park City to "escape the heat." He arranged for the family to live in the Woodside Chalets, across the street from his residence at the Woodside Avenue Happy Hut. Reed alleges that Carol Lee moved to Park City in part because she was attracted to him, in part to escape the pressure of her business dealings and in part to provide a better environment for her two daughters. Family problems had already surfaced between Lisa and her mother, he says, and Lisa had developed drug and drinking problems. Although Lisa was only 14, says Reed, she had been Shortly thereafter, Carol Lee called. She threatened to have him arrested for kidnapping. "I'm at home. I've got witnesses that I've been home all day," he said. "Lisa's gone. You've finally driven her away." Carol Lee and Reed had now become arch enemies. She called him on the phone frequently, Reed says, to threaten and harass him. A few weeks later, he flew to Montana for a weekend visit. According to Reed, Lisa was doing fine. Next week: Jack Reed talks about his run-ins with the local police, his flight to California and subsequent rendezvous with Lisa, falling in love, living on the lam, his capture, and getting lost in the red tape. were the result of jealousy by Lisa's mother, Carol Lee Murrell, who was angry at the attention Reed gave her daughter. Reed admitted that he helped Lisa escape her mother, but said his motivation for becoming involved was to prevent Lisa from moving out alone and living "on the street" in Southern California. Reed would have faced a possible five years to life imprisonment if he had been convicted or the original aggre-vated aggre-vated kidnapping charge, a felony. By pleading guilty to the lesser charge, Reed escaped with a $299 fine and sentence of 90 days in the Summit County jail. At the urging of Reed's former landlords, Dan and Priscilla Willard, Judge Kilby granted Reed his freedom last week, however, providing he leaves the Park City area for a one year probationary period. Reed told the Record he is in the process of writing a book on his experiences called "Chellie," his nickname for Lisa, whose middle name is Michelle. He completed about 250 pages of the manuscript while in jail and reports that it is 80 percent finished. "I don't know the ending yet," he said. The story begins in Huntington Beach, California, where Reed was introduced to Carol Lee, Lisa's mother, through mutual friends. In time, Reed and Carol ment in the upstairs of Reed's apartment than she had been living with her mother, Reed says she "maxed out" on jealousy. After learning that Lisa didn't want to return home, Carol Lee enlisted various members of her family to put pressure on Reed to force Lisa to return to her mother. "She told them I was a lecherous old man with romantic interests, which wasn't true," says Reed. Shortly after that, the problem unresolved, Carol Lee returned to California for medical treatment of health problems of her own. Lisa also went to California on a trip with a friend and returned to forced to fend for herself through most of her life and "had the maturity of a woman of 25 or 30." Lisa had been raised by aunts, uncles and grandparents and had only lived for five years with her mother, who has been married eight times. The conflict between Lisa and her mother was intensified by the move to Park City, which Lisa felt was a "cowboy town." Used to the "fast action" of the Southern California area and missing her friends there, Lisa threatened to leave home and possibly turn to prostitution to support herself. Carol Lee, meanwhile, threa- |
