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PROVO - When Julianna Myers realized her parents weren't taking her to Provo to be married, she asked what was happening.

Myers' mother, the 21-year-old testified Wednesday, turned, looked at her and asked: "What is the Fourth Commandment?"

The commandment she was referring to from the Ten Commandments states: "Honor thy father and thy mother." In a preliminary hearing Wednesday, Myers testified her parents said her plans to marry Perry Myers dishonored them.

Julia Redd and Lemuel Redd are each charged with one count of second-degree felony kidnapping, a charge that 4th District Judge James Taylor ordered them to be tried on.

The day before she was to be wed in the Provo LDS temple, Myers testified, her parents drove her to Colorado then returned her to Provo on her wedding day after she agreed not to contact her fiance.

At one point, Myers said, her parents used force to get her into their van.

"They came up with these ideas [the fiance] was evil because he didn't get me a diamond," Myers testified.

Myers, who eventually married Perry Myers and calls herself by her husband's last name, said she was supposed to marry Aug. 5, but the Redds on numerous occasions tried to dissuade her from marrying. The parents were upset her fiance did not buy her a diamond ring for her engagement and sent her letters calling the young man "evil and abusive," Myers said.

On Aug. 4, the Redds picked her up at her condo in Provo. Myers testified the parents were to drive her to Orem to buy religious garments for her wedding.

The family's van reached Interstate 15, but instead of turning north to go to Orem, Myers said, the van turned south. At first Myers thought her parents were taking her on a drive to talk to her about the wedding.

"The moment that we turned south, [my father] asked me if I was willing to go to the [LDS] temple without them," Myers testified. "I said I didn't want to but I would."

A short time later, Myers realized that they were not returning to Provo.

Myers inquired what was happening and elicited the Ten Commandments question.

At Salina, the trio stopped at a rest stop. Myers said her mother put her arm around her and escorted her to the restroom. When Myers came out of the restroom, she told her parents she wasn't getting back in the van.

The Redds responded by grabbing her wrists, with Julia Redd grabbing her hair and forcing Myers to the van, the daughter testified. The trio wrestled until Myers was on the van's hood, she said. During the struggle, Julia Redd took Myers' gold engagement band, the daughter testified.

Myers eventually agreed to get in the van "because I was too scared to know what they would do to me."

The Redds had reserved a motel room in Grand Junction, Colo., and the trio drove there. Myers, a Brigham Young University student who is due to give birth in late May, appeared choked up during much of her testimony. At one point, Utah County Attorney Kay Bryson had to ask her to talk slower.

After sleeping in Grand Junction, she awoke and went to breakfast with her parents, Myers testified. There she saw a calendar with the date Aug. 5, her wedding date, and began to cry, she said.

After breakfast, the Redds said they would return to Provo if Myers agreed not to contact her fiance, she testified.

The threesome returned to Provo that day, and when they arrived at her condo, her fiance was there.

Under questioning from defense attorney Dean Zabriskie on Wednesday, Myers acknowledged she willingly entered her parents van in Provo and did not call out for help in Salina or in Grand Junction.

The hearing's only other witness was Provo police Detective Mark Crosby, who testified the Redds admitted to grabbing Myers wrists and hair in Salina.

To news reporters after the hearing, Defense attorney Rhome Zabriskie left open the possibility the Redds could accept a plea bargain. Myers said before her engagement she had an "on and off" relationship with her parents. Her mother is the reason one of her sisters has never married, Myers said, and she wants her mother to receive mental health assistance. ncarlisle@sltrib.com