Trucker pleads guilty in south Alabama kidnapping

ROY SCOTT STILLWELL

The Associated Press

3/21/2008

MOBILE, Ala. — A Missouri truck driver admitted to a federal judge that he abducted a woman in Montgomery who was found nude and beaten in his 18-wheeler. 47-year-old Roy Scott Stillwell of Hartville, Mo., was arrested in December at a Baldwin County truck stop on Alabama 59, near Interstate 10.

At a hearing Thursday in U.S. District Court in Mobile, Stillwell pleaded guilty to federal kidnapping charges. Prosecutors said the victim was bound and repeatedly raped and taken on a multistate journey that lasted three to four days.

The U.S Attorney's office said under federal sentencing guidelines, Stillwell faces up to 14 years in prison. Federal agents are trying to determine if Stillwell was involved in similar crimes in other states.