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2025-05-25 -Lurid Crime Tales-
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Tourist was chained up, electrocuted, and menaced with a CHAINSAW inside man's apartment
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[Daily Mail where America gets it news] An Italian tourist was chained up, electrocuted, and taunted with a chainsaw for weeks inside a lavish SoHo apartment by a cryptocurrency entrepreneur, it's been revealed.
John Woeltz, 37, was arrested in New York on Friday after the unnamed tourist escaped the house of horrors and informed a police officer that he had been kidnapped and tortured for weeks.
Kentucky-born Woeltz was allegedly part of a group that concocted a sadistic scheme to lure the tourist to New York so they could access his crypto account.
Police said the victim was tied up with electrical cords and electrocuted as Woeltz attempted to gain access to his passwords, reports the New York Post.
The victim, a 28-year-old man, was then tasered with his feet in the water and pistol-whipped.
The alleged kidnappers even had a chainsaw and threatened to cut the victim's legs off if he didn't reveal his passwords to his crypto accounts.
In addition to the disturbing physical torture, Woeltz and his associates are accused of forcing the victim to take cocaine.
They documented the bone-chilling acts using a Polaroid camera. Police uncovered the photographs in the house of horrors, sources told the Post.
Investigators said the victim met Woeltz on May 6, and the two had prior business dealings with one another.
Woeltz then led the man back to his luxury townhouse in SoHo, where he allegedly snatched his passport and held him captive.
The victim told police that he escaped the house of horrors on Friday after his captors allegedly warned they were planning on killing him later that day.
He flagged down a nearby police officer, and Woeltz was subsequently arrested barefoot in his bathrobe.
The victim was transported to a local hospital with cuts and injuries he sustained from the torture.
A jewelry vendor on the block told the New York Post, 'I knew there was something weird going on, I just assumed they were shooting porn or something. I couldn’t have guessed all this.'
Woeltz is a crypto entrepreneur and investor from Kentucky and was renting the luxurious 8-bedroom 10-bathroom home on Prince Street.
| The photos show an absolutely beautiful property — a wonderful example of big city living, for those who can afford such things. |
The listing was most recently rented for $75,000.
A woman named Beatrice Folchi, 24, was also arrested in connection with the kidnapping, the NYPD confirmed.
Two other individuals believed to have worked for Woeltz were also interviewed by police, but no other arrests have been made.
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Posted by Skidmark 2025-05-25 00:00||
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