Abduction and torture in WV wasn't a random act.

Tortured Woman Had Told of Abuse by One Suspect

And the perpetrators weren't exactly unknown to the police:

"Mr. Brewster and his mother were the ringleaders of the abduction, the police say. When he was 12, Mr. Brewster shot and killed his stepfather at the mobile home and served time in a juvenile detention center. Mrs. Brewster, convicted of voluntary manslaughter, served five years in the fatal 1994 shooting of an 84-year-old woman who the police now say was her mother-in-law."

Just nice, country folk.