people didn t understand the hostage reaction. the term tock home syndrome was not current. it was a fascinating case in stockholm. a bank robbery. one of the women who was held hostage is waiting for the robber to get out of jail to marry him. what? it s a traumatic experience? which the individual is reduced to total helplessness and begins to identify in a human sense with the captor. good evening. patty pefrt has been taken into custody. the fbi said she was picked up in san francisco. the hearst newspaper heiress has been missing for 19 months. her famous line when she was taken to the courthouse and asked her occupation, she said urban guerilla.