Husband who could not save her Kidnapped wife

the kidnapped woman left and her daughter right

 photo credit: Rita Maze and daughter

A Montana woman was able to phone her husband and even talk to police from the trunk of the car in which she was being held captive, but she was dead by the time investigators found her more than 250 miles away in Washington State. see more pics below

Rita Maze, 47, was driving home to Great Falls after having visited relatives in Helena, Mont., when she was accosted at a rest stop on Interstate 10 on Tuesday morning, Lewis and Clark County Sheriff Leo C. Dutton said at a news conference.

the body of Rita Maze was found early Wednesday in the trunk of her car in a parking... IMAGE: Rita Maze's car

Montana and Washington authorities said her body was found inside the car shortly after midnight Wednesday in a parking lot outside Spokane, Wash. International Airport.

Maze called her husband Tuesday night from the trunk of the car, telling him she'd been struck on the head, Dutton said. "She's saying she's kidnapped,"

Report said No cause of death was released, but Dutton said that Maze's death was believed to have been a homicide and that she was believed to have been killed after the car arrived in Spokane. Dutton said authorities were seeking a "person of interest," but he provided no further details.