--- --- # 86-Year-Old Woman Kidnapped by Teenagers Escapes From Trunk of Car, Police Say by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Nov 6, 2015 7:57 PM CUT by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Nov 6, 2015 7:57 PM CUT Three teenagers were arrested for kidnapping an 86-year-old woman from her Washington state home early Tuesday morning, authorities said. The elderly woman, Hazel Able, told police she had been abducted from her Washington home and was left locked inside her car trunk in a Wal-Mart parking lot in Wood Village, Oregon, according to the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office. “She told deputies she was taken from her home by three unknown people, placed in the trunk of her vehicle and was able to escape from the trunk when the vehicle stopped at the Walmart and she was left alone in the… [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/three-teenagers-accused-kidnapping-86-year-old-washington-woman-hazel-n457201?cid=par-time%5F20151106 "undefined") Teenagers Kidnap Elderly Woman, Lock Her in Car Trunk ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4103244/teenagers-kidnap-elderly-woman-walmart/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4103244/teenagers-kidnap-elderly-woman-walmart/"},"headline":"86-Year-Old Woman Kidnapped by Teenagers Escapes From Trunk of Car, Police Say","datePublished":"2015-11-06T19:57:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T12:25:20.046Z","description":"The woman told police she had been abducted from her Washington home by three teenagers","url":"https://time.com/4103244/teenagers-kidnap-elderly-woman-walmart/","keywords":["Crime","Washington"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4103244/teenagers-kidnap-elderly-woman-walmart/","name":"86-Year-Old Woman Kidnapped by Teenagers Escapes From Trunk of Car, Police Say"}}]}] ```