Roxas said that after six days in captivity, she was driven to Quezon City accompanied by RC, Rose, Dex and two other men trailed by another vehicle carrying Boss.

She said the group could not find her uncle’s house and had to ask for directions.

When finally they found the street, they let her off the vehicle and Rose removed her blindfold. They also gave her a small bag.

Roxas said RC told her not to turn around and to count to 100 before walking to her uncle’s house.

She said she managed to count to 100 but could not move, afraid that they might seize her again.

“I heard RC call out to me to tell me to start walking,” she said.

When Roxas finally got inside her uncle’s house and opened the bag, she found a Bible, a copy of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “Love in the Time of Cholera,” some cookies, a cell phone and a pair of handcuffs.

Souvenirs, she thought. Then the phone rang. It was RC.

“I didn’t know what to do. I was panicking. My cousin told me to turn [the phone] off,” Roxas said.

Her cousin shortly got rid of the bag and the phone. Roxas kept the books as well as the slippers and T-shirt that Rose had made her wear.

These items were presented to the commissioners, who said they would have the bar codes on the books’ price tags checked to find out where these were purchased.