For two hours, Cathy Scoto said, she sat in the hallway of her Tahoe Park home with a stranger holding her hostage. Once, when he wasn't paying attention, she texted her roommate, "Intruder in the house." Another time, she snuck a kitchen knife in her pants, just in case. The last time, she grabbed her pit bulls and ran. "I felt really in control … until I stepped outside," said Scoto, 36, who escaped unharmed.