FORT COLLINS — The man accused of kidnapping a woman at gunpoint and holding her for more than a week said in a jail interview Tuesday that he didn’t intend to hurt her, but her family says he’s lying.
Travis Kness, 32, was arrested Monday.
The woman he was accused of kidnapping on July 19, Rosanna Martinez, 45, was found alive at Kness’ parents’ house on Sunday night.
On Tuesday, Kness said his plan to take Martinez was “a crazy idea.”
“We had some conversations, and she said, ‘You know, the only way we can be together is if we move out of state,’ ” Kness said. “And I come up with this crazy idea to go pick her up, and I guess the gun was my assurance that I was going to get her.
“It (the gun) was mainly, originally I brought it for hunting ’cause I thought we’d go up north in the woods and live in the cabin,” he said.
“I went way out on a limb to get her and that’s all it was. I just wanted to win her,” he said. “I want everybody to know that I’m not a dangerous guy.”
Martinez’s family insists that Kness was out to harm her. They say she is traumatized and is in a great deal of shock from the ordeal.
