A man who allegedly kidnapped a woman and kept her as his sex slave for a month allegedly tormented other victims.
It was revealed after the woman, 22, escaped Timothy Haslett Jr.’s sex dungeon earlier this month. Daily Mail reported that she claimed to her rescuers that the suspect killed two of her friends. The woman’s claims are being "actively" investigated by Excelsior Springs Police.
The victim escaped after her captor, 39, left to take his child to school. The woman sprinted barefoot down the street to the house of a neighbor, Lisa Johnson, Friday morning. The victim was wearing latex lingerie, a metal dog collar with a padlock around her neck. She appeared malnourished, the neighbor and police said.
In her state, she was able to utter a soft “help me." Johnson said that the woman was clearly dehydrated and "very malnourished – super skinny, she was maybe no more than 70 pounds. Short hair, although not matted, not dirty." Johnson said that she told the woman that she was calling cops. It caused her to panic. She said that if Johnson called the cops, Haslett would kill her. She said that the woman told her "he had been holding her, wouldn’t let her go." The victim told her that "he was going to kill her and he had killed her two friends."
The woman then went to the house of another neighbor, Cira Tharp, who said that her grandmother was at home. The elderly woman was watching Tharp’s son when the victim suddenly slammed on their front door, screaming for help. The woman told Tharp’s grandmother, that she had been held captive and had been raped. The elderly woman brought her in and wrapped a blanket around her.
The grandmother sat with her and held her until the police came. Tharp said that the victim told her grandmother that her friends "didn’t make it." Tharp added that the woman actually said the "guy killed more than just two. She said it was her friends, but she wasn’t clear if something happened to them up there at the house or wherever he got her from or elsewhere."
New York Post reported that the victim was taken to a local hospital. She identified Haslett’s house on the way as the place she was imprisoned since early September.
KCTV5 reported that the Excelsior Springs Police Department announced Monday after noon that it has activated the Clay County Investigative Squad Task Force. It is a group described as “a multi-jurisdictional entity comprised of members from multiple municipal law enforcement organizations within Clay County.”
The police department also said that law enforcement agencies across Kansas City have confirmed that there are no current missing person reports corresponding with evidence examined in the Excelsior Springs investigation. The police said so to dispel any rumors of Haslett’s alleged victims being missing women from the area.
Haslett, Jr. is charged with rape, kidnapping and second-degree assault, and his arraignment was set for Tuesday afternoon.
