Three hundred officers and volunteers initially began searching for the group, local newspaper Twin Cities Pioneer Press reported at the time, stating Mary’s husband, Irv, was initially a suspect until he took a lie-detector test and passed.Įventually, Shiue relaxed his strict house rules. Picture: Bruce Bisping/Star Tribune via Getty Images Mary Stauffer relied on her faith during times of hopelessness. She and Beth kept prayer vigils daily and shared stories from the Bible. Mary said she credited her faith for keeping her alive while being held in captivity and tortured during those 53 days. His end goal was he was obsessed with my mother and he wanted us to be with him.” The threat was there, but the reality is killing us was not his end goal. ‘If you try to escape, I will kill you’, or he threatened mum, ‘If you don’t do what I want, I’ll kill Beth’, or tell me, ‘If you try to escape, I’ll kill your mother’. Those times I was alone … there was fear and loneliness … He also threatened to kill us. I was locked away in a closet, so I was removed from it. “When he would take her out for the rape sessions, he never had me know about any of that,” Beth said. Shiue, who owned a local electronics store, kept his dark secret from everyone. Mary and Beth were trapped in the house of horrors for 53 days. Shiue filmed the assaults, which at times lasted for hours, said the outlet. When Shiue arrived at his home, Mary and Beth were shackled and locked in a closet.