Caren Murphy, who was kidnapped with Taylor - son of State Rep. John Myers (D., Phila.) - rejected defense attorney Gary Silver's contention that her identification of Kenneth Tuck as one of their abductors was part of a pattern of lies.

"I was afraid," Murphy told a Common Pleas Court jury in her second day on the witness stand. "They knew who I was and where I lived, and they had threatened to kill me."

Murphy is to continue her testimony today when the trial resumes.

The kidnapping of Murphy and Taylor late on the night of Aug. 26, 2006, has resulted in just one arrest; Murphy said a half-dozen armed men had surrounded her car in Strawberry Mansion.

Murphy testified Wednesday about how their abductors handcuffed them, wrapped duct tape over their eyes, and took them to what she believed was a warehouse or garage.

There, she said, she was held for four hours, listening to Taylor, 26, being tortured and begging for his life in what investigators believe was a drug deal gone awry. His body has not been found.

Murphy was dropped off near dawn on Aug. 27, 2006, at an alley near 31st and Diamond Streets. She identified Tuck, 36, as a kidnapper because she said they had had a three-month sexual relationship six years earlier when she was 15 and he 28.

Murphy, 23, said she initially did not tell the full truth about the kidnapping because detectives seemed skeptical and she feared they suspected she had something to do with Taylor's disappearance.

Murphy testified that she knew Taylor was a drug dealer and believed that he had put a plastic bag of drugs in her car's trunk late on Aug. 26, 2006, after she agreed to Taylor's phone request to drive him somewhere.

Murphy said her relationship with Taylor was a "close friendship" but not sexual. She said Taylor sometimes gave her marijuana and cocaine for personal use.

Yesterday, Murphy made two new disclosures not part of the first trial in May 2007, which ended in a mistrial when the jury could not reach a verdict.

During questioning by Assistant District Attorney Gonen Haklay, the prosecutor asked Murphy if she had been threatened since the night of the kidnapping.

"Nothing but the letter," Murphy replied.

Judge Lisa M. Rau called a recess and, after the jury was out of the courtroom, she, Haklay and Silver began discussing what Silver said could be a failure of the prosecution to fully disclose evidence that could be used against Tuck - or help clear him.

Haklay said it was the first he knew of a threatening letter. Questioned by Rau, Murphy told of a folded piece of paper left in her mother's mailbox shortly after she went to police.

The letter had a picture of Taylor and the words, "Tell the truth, bitch," as well as other threats.

Murphy said her mother gave the letter to an aunt and she does not know where it is now. She said she did not tell police about the letter.

Murphy also testified about a man she knew as "Blue," who was introduced to her by Taylor eight months before the kidnapping.

She had not seen Blue since that first meeting, Murphy testified. But when she was being interviewed Aug. 27, 2006, at Southwest Detectives, she said, detectives suddenly brought Blue to her interview room and left them alone.

"He just wanted me to tell him what happened," Murphy testified, and added that she told him the truth - not what she had told detectives.

Murphy said she had been home for just two hours when Blue called, the first of several phone calls over the next few days in which he seemed to know details only someone present during the kidnapping might know.

In addition to disputing her version of some events, Murphy testified that in one phone call, Blue said: "There are a lot of people who want you dead."