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LUGOFF, South Carolina (CNN) -- The man accused of kidnapping a 14-year-old girl and holding her in a booby-trapped bunker shows no remorse and is not cooperating with police, the Kershaw County sheriff said Monday.
Vinson Fiylaw, 36, was captured by police while walking Sunday morning along Interstate 20 near Columbia, South Carolina.
He faces charges that he impersonated a police officer to lure Elizabeth Shoaf, 14, to the bunker, where he allegedly kept her captive for 10 days.
Elizabeth was rescued after she sent a text message to her mother, using her alleged captor's phone after he fell asleep.
Fiylaw, an unemployed contractor, also is charged with possessing incendiary devices and criminal sexual conduct. He is scheduled to appear in court for a bond hearing later Monday.
"We're going to go there and fight it," Sheriff Steve McCaskill said. "This individual has no business being out in society. We're going to make that clear to the judge."
Fiylaw was wanted on charges he sexually assaulted his 12-year-old stepdaughter when he allegedly abducted Elizabeth on September 6, McCaskill said.
He allegedly accosted her at a school bus stop.
Trailer trap door
"He's been on the run from us since November," the sheriff said. "He was very skilled at eluding law enforcement."
For example, McCaskill said, Fiylaw had cut a hole in the bottom of his mobile home "that he could just disappear into" when authorities searched for him.
He also had dug several underground bunkers in the back yard and beyond. The most elaborate, where Elizabeth was kept, was hidden by woods and included a ventilated grill, a propane stove, a latrine, a ladder and a makeshift bunk, the sheriff said.
One Sunday, the girl's parents described how she rescued herself from the booby-trapped hole.
"Hey mom, it's Lizzie," Madeline Shoaf recalled her 14-year-old daughter's text message as saying.
"I looked at the text, and I ran straight to (my husband) and told him, "It's Elizabeth. No one else has my cell phone."
"She told me exactly where she was, down the road, which road it was ... get the police. She's in a hole," Madeline Shoaf recalled.
McCaskill said authorities were able to locate the bunker by tracing the signal to cell phone towers in the area. Police found the teen Saturday morning standing in the mouth of the bunker. Her parents later recalled Elizabeth telling them, "I found the police ... I found them."
Sheriff: Girl waited until Filyaw slept
The bunker where Elizabeth was found was well-built and stocked with food, clothing and a latrine, as well as cigarettes and pornography.
"There was pornography wherever he was -- in his house, in his bunkers, wherever he was," McCaskill said.
The girl told deputies she was afraid to leave the bunker because Filyaw had told her the place was rigged with explosive booby traps. McCaskill said officers found homemade grenades, made from pill bottles and the gunpowder found in fireworks, as well as a flare in the bunker.
Filyaw had posed as a law enforcement officer to lure her into the woods, McCaskill said. Investigators found a shirt on which the suspect had drawn by hand the insignia of a sheriff's deputy's uniform. Her parents said the teen was suspicious of Filyaw, but went with him because he said her younger brother would be harmed if she did not.
Filyaw's common-law wife, Cynthia Hall Filyaw, will be charged with aiding and abetting the abduction by providing him with food and fuel for the bunkers, the sheriff said.
The teen's parents say she is "holding up strong" two days after being rescued.
"She's strong-willed, and she's determined to get through this, and she's glad to be home. That was her only comment," Madeline Shoaf said.
"She doesn't want everybody asking how she's doing. She just wants to know that she's home, and she's with us."
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