She showed up to work expecting the usual small talk, the slow loop around town, the polite nod at the end of a test drive. Instead, she found herself trapped in a stranger’s car, her phone ripped from her hand, being told to “wait like a good girl.”

The woman—a car sales associate at a Marysville dealership—became the focus of a terrifying abduction case that unfolded just 35 miles northwest of Columbus. On Dec. 19, she agreed to accompany a customer, later identified as Todd Marrs, on a routine test drive of a Jeep Wrangler. From the passenger seat, nothing initially seemed off.

Then he changed the route.

According to court records cited by WBNS, Marrs drove away from the standard test-drive path and stopped near a warehouse by railroad tracks. Minutes passed. When the saleswoman asked to return to the dealership, his reply was chilling: “No, now you’ll sit there and wait like a good girl.”

She didn’t freeze. She acted.

The saleswoman quietly texted her coworkers, sharing her live location. She tried calling for help. That’s when Marrs allegedly grabbed her phone and threw it onto the floor of the vehicle, cutting her off.

But the ordeal didn’t end there. Authorities say Marrs then drove to a hospital in Marysville to pick up a friend, refusing to release the saleswoman until he finished running errands. At no point, investigators allege, was she free to leave.

When Marrs finally returned to the dealership, he did so with his friend still in the vehicle—dropping the shaken saleswoman back at her job as if nothing had happened.

She survived because she stayed alert, used the tools she had, and trusted her instincts long enough to get help moving.

Marrs was arrested on Jan. 4 and booked into the Tri-County Regional Jail. He now faces charges of abduction and disrupting public services. A judge set his bond at $250,000. He is scheduled to appear in court again on Jan. 29.

Court records show Marrs has a prior criminal history, including an assault charge in 2023 that resulted in a conviction for attempting to commit a crime.

But this story isn’t about him.

It’s about a woman who went to work, trusted a stranger because her job required it, and was forced into a situation no one signs up for. It’s about quick thinking under pressure, about sending a text when your voice is taken away, about surviving a moment that could have ended very differently.

She did what she could—and it was enough to get her home.