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A 30-year-old woman being driven along a dirt road on the west side of Utah Lake got police to her in the early hours of Feb. 4, 2010, by calling 911 and talking to the dispatcher as though she were checking in with her sister, Utah County authorities said.

The dispatcher heard a woman who would not say what was wrong. Asked what the emergency was, she answered, "I can't really, I don't know," according to the recording, which KSL-TV reported on later that year. The dispatcher asked yes-or-no questions, and at one point the woman whispered "help me" into the phone, investigators said.

Still acting as if she were talking to a relative, she asked the driver where they were and repeated his answer for the dispatcher, placing them south of Saratoga Springs on the west side of Utah Lake and giving the mile marker on State Route 68, the Deseret News reported. "I have the GPS from your cell phone so stay on the line with me as long as you can," the dispatcher told her, according to KSL.

Deputies from the Utah County Sheriff's Office and officers from Saratoga Springs found the pickup truck on a dirt road roughly 10 to 15 minutes after the call came in. The driver switched off the truck's headlights as the patrol cars closed in, KSL reported. The woman was taken from the scene.

Jake James Machan, 25, was booked into the Utah County Jail that morning for investigation of rape, object rape and aggravated kidnapping, all first-degree felonies, the Deseret News reported. Investigators said Machan had picked the woman up at her Salt Lake County home the evening before.

A judge ordered Machan to stand trial after a preliminary hearing in May 2010 at which the woman testified and the 911 recording was played. Deputy Utah County Attorney Chad Grunander argued she had been unconscious and could not have consented.

Prosecutors dismissed all three charges on Dec. 21, 2010. Grunander said the woman stopped responding to his office after the preliminary hearing, missed a hearing on Dec. 2 and did not answer a subpoena. "For reasons unknown to us, we just weren't getting cooperation," he said, according to The Salt Lake Tribune. Machan's attorney, Ron Yengich, said the encounter had been consensual. The case never reached trial.