(AP) — Lincoln’s police chief says a woman abducted by her estranged husband had intended to move from Lincoln to southwest Nebraska so she could avoid him.

Authorities say Julie Hanes planned to move more than 300 miles to Imperial to avoid Dwayne Michael Lawrence. Instead, he kidnapped her Saturday from her hair salon in Lincoln before letting her go 19 hours later in a cornfield near Imperial and killing himself.

Police Chief Jim Peschong says Hanes wanted to leave “so she wasn’t so susceptible to running into him or him running into her.”

Hanes says Lawrence repeatedly threatened to kill them both, prompting her to get a protection order against him. She also had filed for divorce.

Peschong says it’s lucky Lawrence didn’t hurt more people.