He fetched a chain, chained her to a tree, and attempted to get his dogs, but was unsuccessful. Hollenbaugh guided Peggy Ann under the Pennsylvania Turnpike through a culvert and out of the search area, but then became worried about his dogs and took her north of the turnpike again. Peggy Ann, startled, said, "I think I know who you are," and identified him as the "Bicycle Man." He then removed a second jacket and pair of pants and ordered Peggy Ann to wear them over her dress, saying, "That red dress sticks out like a sore thumb." He then took out a cheek-filler made from two wooden discs wired together. Stopping in a clearing in the woods, Hollenbaugh took off his goggles and stowed them in a haversack he was carrying. (Their mother was at a housecleaning job.) Eugene Bradnick went to the woods to find Peggy Ann when he was unable to find her, he went into town to notify the police. Leaving Mary Louise to tend to the younger children, Jim Bradnick ran home and told his father, who was home frying chicken for dinner. On May 11, 1966, as Peggy Ann and her five siblings were walking home from the school bus stop, Hollenbaugh intercepted them, grabbing Peggy Ann and dragging her into the woods. These incidents and others led to this sniper being known as "The Mountain Man". On Ap( Good Friday), Ned Price surprised a trespasser on his property, was shot, and lost a leg. Shortly thereafter, a woman driving on a back road was blocked by a pile of logs, whereupon a man fired a shot, breaking her baby's nursing bottle. Christine Devinney, shot a rifle out of her hand, then bound her wound and left. In August 1964, he broke into the home of Mrs. Hollenbaugh claimed to Peggy Ann that he was responsible for several incidents prior to kidnapping her. In 1962, he came to Shade Gap and was known as "The Bicycle Man" or "Bicycle Pete" because he rode a bicycle all around the area. Hollenbaugh had been convicted of burglary in 1939 and spent the next 20 years in prison and an insane asylum. Peggy Ann attended Southern Huntingdon County High School. The family lived near Shade Gap, Pennsylvania, a small village in Huntingdon County. At the time she was kidnapped, she had a brother Jim (age 16) a sister Mary Louise (11) twin brother and sister Donnie and Debbie (9) and a sister Carol Jean (8). Peggy Ann was born August 16, 1948, the oldest of six children of Eugene and Mildred Bradnick. Anderson, was shot and killed in pursuit of Hollenbaugh. Her ordeal made national headlines, and the search was the largest manhunt in United States history at the time. Bradnick, who was 17 years old at the time, was kidnapped by William Diller Hollenbaugh and held captive for seven days before she was rescued by Pennsylvania State Police and the FBI at a farm in Burnt Cabins, Pennsylvania.
The kidnapping of Peggy Ann Bradnick took place near Shade Gap, Pennsylvania, on May 11, 1966.
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