Captive who left plea on restroom wall thanks janitor

SAVANNAH - A woman who says her trucker boyfriend beat her and held her captive for six months thanked a janitor and Tennessee police for answering a plea for help she scrawled on a restroom wall. <br> <br> On the ABC ``Good Morning America&#39;&#39; program Wednesday, Katina Shaddix said, ``I&#39;d probably be dead now if it wasn&#39;t for them. I thank you for reading it and for doing something.&#39;&#39; <br> <br> Binford Aycock was cleaning the bathroom at a Tennessee rest stop Friday when he found a message in black marker: ``Won&#39;t let me out. Beating me, this is no joke!&#39;&#39; <br> <br> Aycock called the McMinn County Sheriff&#39;s Department, which took the cryptic note seriously enough to follow up on its sole clue that read ``Cannon truck 383.&#39;&#39; <br> <br> A nationwide search led sheriff&#39;s deputies in Laurens County, Georgia, to a rest stop on Interstate 16 near Dublin, a rural town between Macon and Savannah. They found Shaddix with bruises covering her body and arrested trucker Shannon Jones of Delhi, New York. <br> <br> The 24-year-old Shaddix, of Washington state, said she had been with the 26-year-old Jones for about 18 months. She said he became abusive two months into their relationship, and he refused to let her leave him. <br> <br> Shaddix said, ``He started beating on me and I started asking him to let me go. He wouldn&#39;t let me out. He was hurting me and I couldn&#39;t get no help.&#39;&#39; <br> <br> Shaddix told police she scrawled distress messages in about 30 restrooms from New York to Tennessee, writing with a marker hidden in her sock while Jones stood outside the door. <br> <br> Spokeswoman Alexis Hughes said Shaddix was discharged Wednesday morning from Fairview Park Hospital in Dublin. Jones was being held at the Laurens County jail on aggravated assault charges awaiting a bond hearing.