Mary Stauffer’s horrific kidnap ordeal at the hands of her obsessed student has been made into a Lifetime movie starring Alyson Hannigan
- The former Minnesota teacher was abducted at gunpoint with her eight-year-old daughter and thrown in a car’s trunk
- Mary Stauffer, 36 at the time, was repeatedly raped during the 53-day ordeal
- Stauffer and her daughter were shackled and locked in a closet
- Ming Sen Shiue was a former algelbra student of Stauffer’s
- Lifetime movie ‘Abducted: The Mary Stauffer Story,’ aired Saturday starring Alyson Hannigan, known to viewers from ‘How I Met Your Mother’
The horrifying gunpoint kidnapping of teacher and missionary Mary Stauffer in 1980 has been made into a new film starring Alyson Hannigan.
Stauffer, then 36, was leaving a beauty salon with her eight-year-old daughter Beth when she was abducted and forced into the trunk of a car in Roseville, Minnesota.
It turned out the kidnapper was Stauffer’s former ninth-grade algebra student Ming Sen Shiue who, over the years, became increasingly obsessed with her.
Alyson Hannigan is starring as Mary Stauffer in the Lifetime movie about the 1980 abduction
Mary (left) and her daughter Beth Stauffer. Their 1980 53-day ordeal where they were shackled in a closet as been made into a TV movie
Ming Sen Shiue is serving a life sentence for killing a six-year-boy, and raping his former high school teacher Mary Stauffer. She was held captive along with her eight-year-old at the time
‘I think maybe he hoped that we would become his family and forget about our other family and just be his,” Stauffer told Fox News
The movie, ‘Abducted: The Mary Stauffer Story,’ debuted Saturday night on Lifetime.
Shiue, who was 29 at the time, took the mother and daughter to his home for they would be shackled and locked in a closet, and Stauffer surrendered to rape sessions.
‘As an 8-year-old child, it became evident to me really quickly, if we’re difficult, he gets more angry, and things are worse for us,” Beth told Fox News.
The ordeal lasted 53 days when Stauffer, still chained to her daughter, suddenly remembered how her father used to take hinge pins out of doors. She then broke open the door while Shiue was away at work, Fox News reports.
The pair were finally able to escape and called police. People magazine reported Shiue was found guilty of kidnapping and sentenced to 30 years behind bars. Shiue was sentenced to 40 years for murdering a 6-year-old boy who noticed the mother and daughter when the trunk was opened briefly. A&E reported the child’s remains were discovered after his capture. He was denied parole in 2010.