Story highlights UPS driver "a huge help," sheriff's spokesman says 
 
 Woman tells police she had been beaten and held captive 
 
 (CNN) A UPS driver who spotted "call 911" scrawled on a package helped police free a woman who had been held captive in her own home and sexually assaulted, authorities said. 
 
 "He was a huge help," Franklin County Sheriff's Department Sgt. T.J. Wild told CNN affiliate KMOV 
 
 The driver called police after making a scheduled stop to pick up the package at a home in Robertsville, Missouri, on Tuesday. A SWAT team sent to the house in response to his call took 33-year-old James Tyler Jordan into custody, police said. 
 
 Jordan's wife told authorities that her husband had refused to let her leave, punched and slapped her, forced her to strip and sexually assaulted her, court documents state. She said he was holding a gun to her head and threatening to kill her, then himself, when the UPS driver arrived. 
 
 Jordan allegedly had her talk with the driver while standing behind her with a gun. Somehow she had managed to write her plea for help on the package, according to the documents. 
 
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 ROBERTSVILLE, MO (KTVI) - "Contact 911" was the message written on a package being sent from a Franklin County home. A woman gave the package to a delivery truck driver at around 11:20am Tuesday. The driver contacted police and they responded to a home in the 6000 block of Willow Ford Road. The Franklin County Sheriff's office says a 3-year-old also lives in the home. 
 
 Deputies spoke with a woman who lives at there. They say that she was cooperative. They learned that a James Jordan, 33, from Robertsville at the home had previous arrests, including assault. As she was speaking with deputies, a man shut the front door and refused to cooperate. 
 
 The Franklin County Sheriff's office says the man was possibly armed with a .45 caliber handgun and had access to rifles. The SWAT team was activated because the man was not cooperating with law enforcement and there was a toddler in the home. 
 
 The man surrendered to police before the Franklin County SWAT team arrived at the home. He was taken into custody without further incident. The toddler was located inside the home, unharmed. 
 
 Jordan has been charged with domestic assault, sodomy, felonious restraint, unlawful use of a weapon and endangering the welfare of a child. Bond has been set at $100,000 cash only. 
 
 The endangering charges stem from allegations that he locked a 3-year old child in a room for several hours while allegedly assaulting the woman in the home. ||||| Suspected serial killer expected to face 3 capital murder charges 
 
 Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo holds up a photo of Jose Gilberto Rodriguez, 46, on Monday July 16, 2018. Rodriguez is accused in three separate killings and two other violent robberies. Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo holds up a photo of Jose Gilberto Rodriguez, 46, on Monday July 16, 2018. Rodriguez is accused in three separate killings and two other violent robberies. Photo: Jay R. Jordan Photo: Jay R. Jordan Image 1 of / 34 Caption Close Suspected serial killer expected to face 3 capital murder charges 1 / 34 Back to Gallery 
 
 It was the call they'd been waiting for. 
 
 Harris County Deputy Jorge Reyes and his partner had been up all night, patrolling Cypress, eyes peeled for a parolee suspected in a violent spree that included the July killings of two people at local mattress stores and a woman found dead at her home. 
 
 The suspect — who'd allegedly cut off his ankle monitor before unleashing a nine-day reign of terror — had eluded capture for almost two weeks, sowing seeds of fear throughout the northern part of the county. 
 
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 But just after 6 a.m., the lawmen got the tip they needed. There was a suspicious man in a gray Nissan Sentra in the neighborhood. And he fit the description. 
 
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 It took a half-hour to find him and 14 minutes to chase him down, but by 7 a.m., deputies had him in custody. 
 
 Now, authorities say Jose Gilberto Rodriguez is expected to face three capital murder charges after a much-anticipated arrest that brought relief to residents of greater Houston. 
 
 "A lot of Harris County residents will be sleeping much better tonight," said a relieved Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez, less than 24 hours after he and Houston's police chief held a joint news conference to plead for the public's help in locating Rodriguez. 
 
 In addition to the three killings, Rodriguez, 46, a convicted sex offender, is suspected in a home invasion involving an elderly couple and the shooting of a METROLift bus driver. Authorities said the victims were innocent people who just happened to cross the suspect's violent path. 
 
 The violent spree focused new attention on the problem of parole violators, sparking promises of change from Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo, who vowed to create the state's "biggest" task force to go after them. 
 
 "We are going to be flies on stink to parolees," Acevedo said late Tuesday. "They're not going to like us." 
 
 In addition to creating a "model" task force of local agencies focused on the county's 18,000 parolees, Acevedo called for tougher laws, such as subjecting those on parole to random searches. 
 
 The manhunt began around July 5, when Rodriguez clipped off his ankle monitor and slipped away, authorities say. They gave the following account: 
 
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 Four days later, investigators say, he broke into an elderly couple's home in the 12000 block of Foxburo. There, he allegedly held an 87-year-old homeowner at gunpoint, tying him up and crushing a pillow over his face during a robbery. 
 
 The man's 86-year-old wife was in the shower at the time and survived unharmed. 
 
 It's not clear what the suspect did or where he went in the days that followed. But on Friday, police found the first body. 
 
 It was that of 62-year-old Pamela Johnson, a Kroger grocery chain employee who'd been shot to death in her Cypress home before. Her car was stolen. 
 
 A day later, the manager of a Mattress Firm on FM 1960 in the Willowbrook area found 28-year-old employee Allie Barrow shot in the head in the store's back office. Hours later, a witness spotted a man ditching Johnson's missing car at the Willowbrook Mall. 
 
 Early Monday, the violent streak continued with the shooting of a 22-year-old METROLift bus driver. He was transported to the hospital and listed in critical condition. 
 
 The last of the fatal shootings came later that day, when police found the body of 57-year-old Edward Magaña inside a Mattress One on the North Freeway. 
 
 By that point, police were on high alert. They thought they knew who their killer was — and that he might be looking to kill again. 
 
 "There's no doubt in our mind that he intended to find his next victim," Gonzalez said. 
 
 The suspect's violent past dates back to at least 1989, when, records show, he was sent to prison for attempted sex assault, burglary, and auto theft convictions. 
 
 That September, he broke into a young woman's home and stole her car. He pulled down the teenage girl's pants and underwear and tried to rape her in an act that court records describe as "more than mere preparation that tended to but failed to effect the commission of the offense intended." 
 
 He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 25 years in prison, and while behind bars also was sentenced to six years in prison for a theft charge he picked up in Montgomery County the year before. 
 
 All four of the felony sentences ran concurrently, but two years later he caught another charge while in prison at the Coffield Unit in Anderson County. 
 
 This time, he was sentenced to 10 more years in prison after a conviction for one count of possession of a deadly weapon inside a penitentiary, according to Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Jeremy Desel. 
 
 With the stacked sentences, he wasn't let out on parole until September 2017. 
 
 It wasn't the parole board's decision to release him, Desel stressed. Given the amount of time he'd served, the law required his release. 
 
 At one point he lived in the Dallas area after prison, though records show he later returned to Houston and moved into a Fifth Ward halfway house. He was deemed a high-risk sex offender, though the home's owner, Theresa Williams, described him as nice and hardworking — an "ideal" tenant who always paid on time and helped mow the grass. 
 
 He was holding down a job at a nearby Tyson's factory and was scheduled to be under parole supervision until 2023. 
 
 Williams said she last saw him sometime last week, when he left the house, ostensibly headed out to do laundry. 
 
 "Don't worry, Mama T," Williams recalled him saying. "I'm never gonna leave you." 
 
 When police started questioning Rodriguez on Tuesday morning, the man they found was not nice or interested in helping out. 
 
 He was stoic, investigators said. He didn't admit to his alleged crimes or express remorse. 
 
 But still, authorities said, they felt confident they had enough to tie him to all three slayings — though they declined to offer specifics. 
 
 Police recovered a pistol during the arrest, but it won't be clear until tests come back whether it's the murder weapon. 
 
 By late Tuesday, he'd been formally charged with one count of capital murder, and police said two more counts are expected. He's being held without bond in the Harris County jail. 
 
 For Reyes — one of the two deputies who arrested Rodriguez — that ending seemed almost predestined. 
 
 "When I left house before my shift, I told my wife, 'I'm gonna catch him,'" the four-year veteran of the sheriff's office recalled at Tuesday's press conference. 
 
 "And I did." 
 
 Victoria Cheyne, Julian Gill, Jay Jordan and Stephen Tucker Paulsen contributed to this report. 
 
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– Authorities say a UPS driver "made a huge difference" in helping rescue a woman who was being abused by her husband this week in Missouri, KMOV reports. On Monday night, 33-year-old James Jordan allegedly locked the couple's 3-year-old son in a bedroom without food or water and started assaulting his wife. The victim says Jordan beat her, put a gun to her head, and threatened to kill her. When she tried to leave the house, she says he dragged her back inside by the hair. She also says Jordan forced her to take off her clothes then sexually assaulted her, according to CNN. A UPS driver made a scheduled stop at the house Tuesday to pick up a package—15 hours after the alleged abuse started. Authorities say the victim handed the package to the driver while Jordan stood behind her with a gun. She managed to write "contact 911" on the package as the driver was leaving. KTVI reports the driver called police, who arrived at the home and arrested Jordan without incident. "We are grateful this UPS driver with more than a decade of service followed protocol when he saw a customer in distress," CNN quotes UPS as saying in a statement. Jordan has been charged with domestic assault, sodomy, felonious restraint, unlawful use of a weapon, and endangering the welfare of a child.