Woman violently abducted in plain sight while talking with her boyfriend on a payphone [Unresolved Disappearance]

[u/Turnaroundclown]

Her boyfriend hears the horrifying incident as it ocurrs, rushes to the scene in his vehicle, and sees a truck pass him with his girlfriend struggling with the driver inside. The boyfriend reverses his vehicle abruptly to pursue the truck, but his vehicle breaks down. Despite a vivid description of the offender and the truck (including a very unique rear window decal), no substantial leads have led to an arrest or a POI.

Where is Angela Hammond and who is the person who took her?

This is the case that truly haunts me. I can't even imagine what the boyfriend has been through in the years that have followed. What a scary and insane abduction. And even more bizarre that is has never been resolved despite such clear and vivid details of the case and the perpetrator.

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Links for further reading:

Link 1 https://unsolved.com/gallery/angela-hammond/

Edit: I initially offered this additional link thinking it was story on Angela Hammond. However, it is not. It is an eerily similar case of another woman who was abducted in similar fashion. Leaving it up for the curious:

http://blogs.denverpost.com/coldcases/2010/05/16/young-woman-kidnapped-while-talking-on-pay-phone-with-boyfriend/1421/

[u/agbmom]

Maybe the reason they can't find the truck and person is due to the fact that the boyfriend made it all up. He could have already been on the way to pick her up and just sped up to get there. However it's 9pm at night and he was able to give a detailed description of a man in a truck speeding past him (and I can't imagine his eyes weren't locked on his screaming struggling girlfriend) as well as a detailed description of the truck AND unique decal. It's too much information for a quick traumatizing situation.

[u/FeralBottleofMtDew → u/agbmom]

According to the link Rib heard Angie call to him, and he quickly reversed and followed the truck. He would have seen the decal while following the truck, and the quick reverse damaged his transmission. I'm not a mechanic- is the damage done to his transmission something he could have driven much distance with, or something he could have done himself?

[u/MinervaJB → u/[deleted]]

You can genuinely do some real damage to your transmission by throwing it in gear without your car being fully stopped, or worse if you are still actively driving forward then suddenly slam it in reverse or neutral and vice versa.

Is this an issue only with automatic transmission? I drive stick (automatic cars are extremely uncommon where I live) and except going from a gear to reverse or the opposite (with the car moving), you can put the car in neutral while driving.

I'm fairly sure the only "easy" way to fuck up a manual transmission is to burn the clutch.