Kidnaping Scars More Than Skin Deep : Abduction: Victim says ‘psycho’ seemed to enjoy locking him in trunk and kicking him repeatedly. He’s working with police on a composite sketch.

Daniel Barrie woke up Wednesday morning feeling lucky to be alive.

The 30-year-old Upland man, who survived a bizarre kidnaping that began Monday afternoon in Lake Elsinore and ended more than 24 hours later in the parking lot of a Santa Ana motel, said he is anxious for police to catch his abductor.

“This guy is still out there and I’m concerned about him doing this to somebody else,” said Barrie, who was kicked in the ribs several times, forced to withdraw money from his bank account, and locked in the trunk of his rental car before escaping by breaking though the car’s back seat when his attacker left.

His abductor, who kidnaped Barrie at gunpoint, remained at large Wednesday. Barrie is working on a composite sketch of the man with artists from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, Sgt. Mike Schatz said.

“We are doing some follow-up investigation in the area where he was taken, to see if anyone saw anything,” Schatz said. “We are hoping to identify him with the help of the sketch.”

During an interview Wednesday, Barrie recalled how he was on his way to a business appointment about 2 p.m. Monday when he stopped outside a convenience store in Lake Elsinore to make a telephone call. When he returned to his unlocked rental car, a man with a gun slid into the passenger seat and ordered him to drive.

“I told him he could have my car, my money or anything else if he would just let me go,” Barrie said. “He was very abusive and said, ‘Just do what I tell you and I won’t kill you.’ Every time I’d ask him to let me go, he’d kick me. I figured I’d have to just wait for my chance to get away.”

But that chance didn’t come for more than a day.

In the meantime, Barrie, fearing for his life and worried about his wife and young son, remained locked in the trunk of the car he had rented that day.

“This guy was just a psycho,” Barrie said. “It was as if he enjoyed locking me in the trunk. It was like a sick kind of pleasure for him.”

Although he escaped with only bruised ribs, Barrie said the psychological wounds inflicted during the experience will be harder to heal.

“The physical pain is minor compared to the feeling of a loss of security,” Barrie said. “I feel real lucky that I didn’t get shot and that I’m not dead. But I’m angry that this had to happen. You never believe that something like this is going to happen to you.”