APne 06/04 1839 Moonie Kidnapping DENVER (AP) -- Two Omaha detectives are free on bond a

APne 06/04 1839 Moonie Kidnapping


   DENVER  (AP)  -- Two Omaha detectives are free on bond after a
judge reduced bail on kidnapping charges to $5,000 each.

   Dennis Whelan, 52 and James  Hilzenderger  27,  were  released
Wednesday from the Denver City Jail.

   The men, charged with second-degree kidnapping, conspiracy and
false imprisonment,  had  been held on $250,000 bond.  But Denver
Judge Robert Crew Jr. reduced the bond after a two-hour hearing.

   Crew said the men may not  participate  in  any  deprogramming
activities and must remain within a 200-mile radius of Omaha.

   Whelan,  reportedly an expert on deprogramming cult followers,
and Hilzenderger were arrested last week  following  the  May  26
abuction of Britta Adolfsson, 29, of Sweden from a Denver street.
The  woman  was  forced  into a van by two men in broad daylight,
witnesses told police.

   Authorities have said Adolfsson's parents,  Swedish  physicist
Tord Adolfsson and his wife, Edith, hired deprogrammers to abduct
their  daughter  because  they  were concerned about her upcoming
wedding this summer to a man in a mass wedding  in  South  Korea.
No charges have been filed against the Adolfssons in the case.

   Britta  Adolfsson  reportedly  has belonged for eight years to
the Unification Church, whose  members  are  known  as  "Moonies"
because of their Korean founder, the Rev.  Sun Myung Moon, police
have said.

   For  a  week,  Adolfsson  had  been  the object of a search by
Denver police with the help of the FBI. But Tuesday morning,  she
ran from  a  house in Lyons and flagged down Sgt.  Buck Causey of
the Kansas Highway Patrol. "She said  she  had  been  kidnapped,"
Causey said.

   Adolfsson told authorities several men had held her captive at
the  house,  but  they apparently fled before police could search
the dwelling.

   The women appeared to have "no physical injuries," as a result
of her time in captivity,  said  Denver  District  Attorney  Norm
Early,  "but  something  like this has to affect you emotionally.
The terror of being snatched off the street has to  be  extremely
great."

   Two  Denver  detectives on Wednesday brought Adolfsson back to
Denver where she was staying at a hotel, officials said.

   
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