Posted on 11/15/2025 9:19:11 AM PST by Twotone
Police found a half-naked woman handcuffed in a Texas backyard who had been tortured for a considerable period of time by five people she knew for years, authorities said.
The Austin Police Department said in a statement that officers conducted a welfare check just after 9 a.m. Oct. 30 after a report regarding a "woman in distress who appeared to be restrained and calling for help."
Police said they discovered a woman outside a home who was "handcuffed to a piece of exercise equipment."
"The woman showed signs of physical distress and had visible injuries consistent with prolonged restraint," the press release read. "The woman told officers she had been held at the residence for several months and was not allowed to leave."
Police said they had to cut through the "heavy metal links" to release the woman who soon was taken to a local hospital for treatment.
Officers discovered three children inside the house who were "safely removed and placed in the care of Child Protective Services for safety and support."
Police arrested five people from the residence and charged them with aggravated kidnapping, aggravated assault, injury to elderly or disabled, and unlawful restraint.
The suspects were identified as 51-year-old Michelle Garcia, 32-year-old Mache Carney, 30-year-old Juan Pablo Castro, 21-year-old Crystal Garcia, and 21-year-old Maynard Lefevers.
The Austin American-Statesman said it obtained the arrest affidavit, which indicated the woman told police she was friends with one of the females who lived in the house and visited often — but "one day they decided they didn't like her anymore and no longer allowed her to leave."
The suspects said they had known the woman for years, the affidavit stated.
Carney told police they started restraining the woman to stop her from stealing from neighbors, the affidavit said.
Several of the suspects claimed the woman suffers from mental health issues, according to the affidavit.
Crystal Garcia told investigators that the woman was only “50/50” capable of consent, the affidavit stated.
Citing the affidavit, KVUE-TV reported that the woman had been at the home since July and had been "handcuffed inside and outside the house for months."
Castro — the husband of Carney — admitted to purchasing the handcuffs, according to the affidavit.
According to the affidavit, the woman told detectives a male and a female repeatedly shot her with a BB gun and that she was beaten with a baseball bat and fed only once a day.
Michelle Garcia told investigators they fed the woman one meal a day because she had gotten "chunky," according to the arrest affidavit. However, police noted that the woman appeared malnourished when she was found.
Police said the woman told them she was punished if she tried to leave and had open wounds, cuts, swollen wrists, missing flesh from her hands and feet, extensive scarring all over her body from BB gunshots, and a battered face, the American-Statesman reported, citing the affidavit.
KVUE, citing law enforcement, reported that the woman had "hundreds of small BB scars across her body and a swollen shut right eye from a pellet injury."
The affidavit said the suspects confessed to shooting the woman with BB guns. Castro told police he bought an electric rifle-style BB gun "to shoot her" because he didn't want to touch the woman.
According to the arrest affidavit, Castro told authorities he would come home from work, grab the BB gun from his closet, and "chase her around the yard," firing pellets.
"I [expletive] hate her," Castro told investigators when asked why he shot the victim, the affidavit stated.
A 4-year-old child who lived at the home told a specialist during a forensic interview that Castro — his father — shot the woman when she was "bad," according to the affidavit. The child said he could hear the woman outside screaming, according to the affidavit.
The woman told investigators she "got in trouble" the night before police found her because her pants fell down, according to the affidavit.
The American-Statesman said as "punishment," a number of suspects "allegedly shot her repeatedly with a BB gun," secured her in the backyard with handcuffs, then left her there "overnight without pants or food as temperatures dipped into the 40s." The paper, citing police, added that the woman said she "begged and cried to be released, but was threatened with more and worse violence" if she kept pleading.
The investigation is ongoing, and those with information about the case are urged to contact the Austin Police Department’s Human Trafficking Unit at 512-974-4786 or submit an anonymous tip to Crime Stoppers at austincrimestoppers.org or 512-472-8477.
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“Keep Austin Weird, yeah!”
And the idiots in Austin are proud of that motto.
“Why are we learning about this 12 days after? “
Because you live in a cage and only get your news from this site?
“Why are we learning about this 12 days after?”
MSM reported this 16 days ago.
I live in Central Texas and this is the first I’ve heard about it. I listen to talk radio and this is the sort of story the local talkers would have put out immediately if there was a hint of it. For unknown reasons, this story was buried. I hope it was so police could round up everyone involved with that house of horror.
How?
Why?
This had been going on for months?
Nothing to see here brown on brown..........
Same here. This is something Walton & Johnson would mention and I haven’t heard a word.
I hope that poor woman can recover from that evil.
A search yields that the Austin American-Statesman received details from the Austin Police Department and published a story. But the story broke nationally around November 5.
I have the radio on almost continually at home and in the car and this is the first I’ve read about it.
You say that as though it’s a bad thing.
I wish there was a way we could just cut out Austin like a piece of yard sod, and drop it somewhere far away out in the middle of Death Valley where it belongs.
We used to have mental institutions where people with these kind of problems were sent and kept.
diversity is so awesome
“They’re just torturing the women that Americans refuse to torture” - G W MORON
Upstate NY wishes it could do that with NYC.
“You say that as though it’s a bad thing.”
It is when you have a wrong view of the world and make false posts on this site like that dude did.
Well, they SEEM nice.
I think we should chalk this up to cultural differences, vow to remember our personal biases and priveledges, apologise, and open our homes and communities to vibrant newcomers such as these.
Or, we can load them in shipping containers and drop them in the Atacama Desert.
They are proud of a slogan such as keep Austin weird?
What the heck?
During the presidential campaign, Tim Walz and others said how JD Vance was weird.
So calling people or places weird , per the liberals own criteria , is not a positive thing.
They talk of her having mental health issues.
Sub humans the lot of them.
LOL! Aw, you’d probably still get into Heaven. :^)
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