The man pictured above is the heroic step-father who rescued his five-year-old daughter from the clutches of a brazen kidnapper who snatched her from her own bed in the middle of the night.
Aaron Edson, 37, awoke to find Troy Morley, 46, carrying his daughter across his front lawn at 4:30 yesterday morning in quiet Sandy, Utah, police say.
‘What are you doing, thatโs my daughter, youโre not taking her!’ the father screamed.
Morley, who is 5-foot-11 and 250lbs, put the girl down without struggle.
He fled and was eventually caught in another house after a police dog subdued him.
On Friday night, the 911 call made by the girl’s mother was released by KSL.com.
In the footage, Edson’s wife, Stephanie, can be heard telling the dispatcher: ‘There was a man in my home and he took my five-year-old daughter.
‘And I happened to wake up and he had my daughter outside, and my husband ran out there and got him. But he took my five-year-old daughter.’
The family say that they’ve never seen Morley before and they have no idea what he planned to do with the little girl if he had escaped with her.
Edson’s identity was revealed yesterday when a family spokesman praised his quick action and said the family were seconds from losing the daughter.
