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The teenage girl who was held captive in a storage container for nine months before being dramatically freed by her abductor has told how she survived by building a bond with the man and convincing him to trust her. Abigail Hernandez, now 19, was 14 when Nathaniel Kibby, now 39, abducted her as she walked from from school in Conway, New Hampshire, in October He held her in a locked storage container for nine months where he forced her to wear a shock collar and sexually assaulted her.

In July , Kibby suddenly decided to let her go and drove her to a rural road where she was able to then walk home. He was arrested a week later and will likely spend the rest of his life in jail.

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In a clip from the show, she describes deciding early on that she had to strategise and form a bond with Kibby if she wanted to survive. Abigail Hernandez revealed in an interview that will air on Friday how she won Nathaniel Kibby's trust while he held her captive for nine months in a trailer in New Hampshire between and She was 15 at the time but is now While she was in his captivity, Kibby was operating a counterfeit money scheme.

She caught wind of it but went along with him to keep him happy. She then convinced him that if he let her go, she would not tell anyone who he was or where he lived. Like, everybody makes mistakes… If you let me go, I won't tell anybody about this. This strategy is always there,' she said. Eventually, she won him over enough that he agreed to let her read books.

One of the books he gave her had his name written on it. Until then, she had no idea who he was. Law enforcement experts have described Abigail's ability to strategize amid such severe trauma as extraordinary.