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NEW PORT RICHEY - Alan Malone knew right way from the tone of his sister's voice when he called her Saturday that something was terribly wrong.
He was right.
A few hours before, police say, his sister, Melony Malone Kinard, 38, of Spring Hill, had been kidnapped at gunpoint in Pasco County by her estranged husband, Roy David Kinard III.
She was in the back seat of her husband's car, bound at the ankles with a phone cord, as the 40-year-old man drove down U.S. 19 from Pasco to Tarpon Springs in Pinellas County.
Malone became concerned after his mother, who lives in Spring Hill, got a call from one of his sister's co-workers that she hadn't shown up for work Saturday morning.
The family knew that Melony had been having trouble with Kinard, the man she was trying to divorce after a long and bitter marriage. Less than two weeks ago, she had received a domestic violence injunction against her husband after filing for divorce.
Malone, who was more than 900 miles away in Indiana, called his sister's cell phone. After several attempts to reach her, she answered in a frightened voice.
``She told me he had a gun,'' Malone said Sunday. ``She said he promised he wasn't going hurt her. I told her to put him on the phone, and I started talking to him.''
Roy Kinard was distraught and talked about committing suicide, Malone said.
Police said Kinard is a convicted felon with a history of domestic violence.
In 1995, he was convicted of grand theft auto in Hernando County and sentenced to seven years in state prison. He was released in May 1999.
His acquittal on other charges related to the 1995 case, however, made bigger news.
He had been accused of attempted murder in assaults on a former girlfriend and her mother. The jury found him not guilty of charges that he attacked the women with a ball-peen hammer and a steel rod, fracturing their skulls.
At the time, the trial judge said he disagreed with the verdict and that the jury had ``engaged in speculation'' to reach its decision.
http://www.tampatrib.com/FloridaMetro/MGBVS6C6YCE.html
He was right.
A few hours before, police say, his sister, Melony Malone Kinard, 38, of Spring Hill, had been kidnapped at gunpoint in Pasco County by her estranged husband, Roy David Kinard III.
She was in the back seat of her husband's car, bound at the ankles with a phone cord, as the 40-year-old man drove down U.S. 19 from Pasco to Tarpon Springs in Pinellas County.
Malone became concerned after his mother, who lives in Spring Hill, got a call from one of his sister's co-workers that she hadn't shown up for work Saturday morning.
The family knew that Melony had been having trouble with Kinard, the man she was trying to divorce after a long and bitter marriage. Less than two weeks ago, she had received a domestic violence injunction against her husband after filing for divorce.
Malone, who was more than 900 miles away in Indiana, called his sister's cell phone. After several attempts to reach her, she answered in a frightened voice.
``She told me he had a gun,'' Malone said Sunday. ``She said he promised he wasn't going hurt her. I told her to put him on the phone, and I started talking to him.''
Roy Kinard was distraught and talked about committing suicide, Malone said.
Police said Kinard is a convicted felon with a history of domestic violence.
In 1995, he was convicted of grand theft auto in Hernando County and sentenced to seven years in state prison. He was released in May 1999.
His acquittal on other charges related to the 1995 case, however, made bigger news.
He had been accused of attempted murder in assaults on a former girlfriend and her mother. The jury found him not guilty of charges that he attacked the women with a ball-peen hammer and a steel rod, fracturing their skulls.
At the time, the trial judge said he disagreed with the verdict and that the jury had ``engaged in speculation'' to reach its decision.
http://www.tampatrib.com/FloridaMetro/MGBVS6C6YCE.html
