Why don't kidnapped victims pretend to be psycho like him (role-play)?

[Anonymous]

Whenever I hear about kidnapping cases, I've always wondered about this. The victims end up screaming, pleading but don't do this:

I imagine role-playing and pretending to be a psycho, let him believe I like kidnapping him together we can keep this a quiet, tell him a fictious story of how I liked killing animals as a kid, let him think I'm just as crazy too, basically try seducing him. Then when he's all distracted, I would already have a weapon to attack him and leave.

Why haven't any kidnapped victims thought of that before? That would one day of getting out, pretending to be like him and like it but it's to injure him badly in self-defense.

[CheeseMonster]

At least one girl did that. She and her little brother were kidnapped and abused for so long that the way she managed to get rescued was (after gaining his trust) she convinced him to let her show him around her hometown before they left the state. It had been weeks and weeks to the point he wasn't concerned about driving around the town he kidnapped her from with her in the passenger seat. She even convinced him to eat at a local restaurant, where one of the other people there did thankfully recognize her as the missing girl and called the police.

Unfortunately, her brother was shot in front of her before that, because he wasn't good enough at pretending to be happy for the kidnapper. Most kids can't handle that kind of psychological warfare when they've been kidnapped and probably at least one or two other horrible things have just happened and are continuing to happen to them and/or their family. That's why it doesn't happen very often. They're children undergoing incredible psychological trauma.

Now sure, adults are presumably, on average, more mentally capable than pre-pubestent children. But kidnappers also know that. One serial kidnapper and murderer literally had notes written to himself, reminding him not to listen to the woman no matter what she said, because "they'll say anything to escape." Even so, he did release i believe 1 or 2 victims (presumably before writing those notes), who survived and helped get him and his partner convicted. I don't remember why they didn't immediately go to the police, except 1 was tortured so badly her memory refused to document it, so she didn't remember what happened to tell the police. It wasn't until another woman escaped by force that he was charged for those crimes and the released victims were able to testify.

[RockyHammock]

"Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth" - Tyson.

I'm sure some people have thought of this, but kidnappers control a lot more variables than most can consider. When those variables don't align with your plan most react instinctively. Abandoning your natural instincts takes a lot of training, most wouldn't train for the remote chance they get kidnapped.

[Anonymous]

I don't know probably depends on the motivation of the kidnapper

If it's sexual they'll probably still get off on it
If it's financial they'll probably play alone
But for any other reason, they'd probably just kill you

[NostalgiaSenpi]

Because they'll probably just kill you instead.

[Asker]

I always thought they might want a partner in crime.. at least let the kidnapper believe I like kidnapping others too.

[Asker]

I imagine thinking of all types of tricks to survive such a horrible ordeal like that, even probably trying seducing him with charm, lying about his good looks, anything to get him distracted.

[Anonymous]

Probably because it’s hard to be calm and cunning when you’re life is in danger, you probably have a different mindset if in that position