Dodge City ? A Dodge City man who escaped a trio of kidnappers almost three years ago isn’t happy the only surviving one could get as little as 10 years in prison for her crimes.

“I think she needs to spend more time behind bars for that,” said Randy Wormington, after learning that Ford County prosecutors have worked out a plea deal with Carrie Travis that would considerably shrink the 50-plus years of jail time she could face at her sentencing next year.

Last week, Travis, 21, pleaded no contest to aggravated kidnapping and aggravated robbery in the Jan. 12, 2003, abduction. It was part of a crime spree that covered parts of Kansas and Oklahoma before ending a day later in a deadly shootout in New Mexico.

According to Wormington, Travis, Stanley Fugate and Melinda Rothenay stole Wormington’s trailer home at gunpoint at a Dodge City Wal-Mart, binding him with duct tape and stashing him in the back. Wormington suffered a knife wound in the hand while trying to wrestle a shotgun from Fugate.

The trio, all from Arkansas, headed south on U.S. 56. They eventually turned onto a gravel road in Stevens County and got out, leaving the engine running. Wormington, who had gnawed his way through the tape, quickly freed himself, ran to the front of the motor home and drove off.

The three continued in another vehicle and, after eluding police for a time, faced off in a gun battle with authorities in northwestern New Mexico. Rothenay, 24, was killed and Fugate, 38, died two days later.

Travis’ attorney, Linda Eckelman, claims Travis, of Mena, Ark., was not a willing participant in the scheme. Wormington disagrees. He said he never thought Travis, who was guarding him with the shotgun, was trying to help him.